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  Dear Walt Whitman;

I have received your books and MS. and send, with my hearty thanks, a New York check for $30. It is a little more than your modest charge. You will pardon the liberty; I am not giving you anything like what the writing is worth to me, but trying to give a just compensation for the trouble of copying, simply.

My boy, ten years old, said   to me this morning, "Have you got a book with a poem in it called 'O Captain! My Captain!' I want to learn it to speak in school." I stared at him, bearing you in mind at the moment, as if he were a mind-reader— and asked him where he had heard of that poem. He said a boy had repeated it last year somewhere.

I made him happy by showing him the MS. and   promising him it should be his if he deserved it, after I am gone.

With love and good wishes and hopes that the spring may bring healing on its wings to you

I am faithfully yours John Hay     from John Hay, acknowledging & paying for MS of "Captain, O Captain!"