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  65 Pleasant St., Dorchester, Mass., Mar. 5/89 Dear Sir,

I'm preparing a volume of selections from American literature to cover the period from Franklin to Lowell, I would like very much to make use of the following extracts from your writings:

"Specimen Days and Collect," the passage beginning p. 268, line 5, "the art of arts, the glory of expression," ending p. 270 line 15, "more divine than men and women."

 

"Leaves of Grass," the poems entitled "For You O Democracy," p. 99, "the Singer in the Prison," p. 292, and "O Captain, My Captain," p. 262—or, in lieu of the first two, the poem called "Pioneers! O Pioneers!"

If you will kindly grant me permission to avail myself of the extracts I have indicated, it will be a very great favor.

Yours truly, Huntington Smith Mr. Walt Whitman  

P.S.—I do not know whether you care to see notices of your books or not, but I venture to send you a review of your "November Boughs," which I recently contributed to the Literary World—a paper which in the past I believe has been anything but prejudicial in your favor

H.S.   Huntington Smith