Early Whitman Collecting
Autograph Letter, signed, to a Massachusetts collector of Whitman, negotiating for a copy of the 1871-2 Leaves of Grass.
Boston: 3 September 1897.
Price: $500.00
About the item
3 pp. (rectos only), ink on paper, Parker House stationery. 8vo. Old folds. Fine.
Item #367516
Whitman’s publisher David McKay writes to the Reverend L.M. Powers of Somerville at the suggestion of William Sloan Kennedy (1850-1929), in search of a copy of the 1871-2 edition of Leaves of Grass, asking the Reverend to name his price or to accept in exchange a finely bound copy of the Autograph Edition of Whiman’s Poetry and Prose that had been intended for an exhibition. McKay mentions that he has a personal presentation copy of the complete, “and need the edition you have to put in my collection”.
