Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Walt Whitman, Washington, D.C., to Gordon Lester Ford, 1867 August 23 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
120160
Accession number
MA 23903
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, sender.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 21.3 x 13.6 cm
Notes
This letter is cited in the facsim. ed. of "Leaves" (New York, Facsimile Text Society, 1939), p. vii, ed. by C.J. Furness.
Summary
Writing Ford about possible places to find a first edition of "Leaves of Grass" in New York; speculating that it might still be for sale at Dion Thomas's Bookstore in Nassau Street; specifying that Andrew Rome, whose printing shop has moved to Fulton Street, across from the Brooklyn City Hall, printed the first edition.