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The first "Letter to the Editor," on May 10 (p. 2, cols, 1-2), is entitled "Broadway Revisited. | Letter from Walt Whitman. | Sights and Sounds in the Metropolis— Broad-|way, from the Battery—The Old Park | Theatre—John Jacob Astor— The Old Omni-|bus Drivers." The second letter appeared on May 17 (p. 2, cols. 3-4): "Real Summer Openings. | Letter from Walt Whitman. | Jaunting Up the Hudson—The Ulster County | Region—Spring Sights amid Hills and Rocks | —The Birds; Bees; Turf-Fires—Shows on | the River—Vassar and Manresa—Walter | Dumont and his Medal."[17] The "screed—Central Park jottings, &c" was called "These May Afternoons" when it came out in the May 24 issue (p. 2, cols. 3-4).[18] (The first two letters have not been recorded in the Whitman canon.)
The next letter is interesting because it reveals a promotional scheme which, if successful, would have been a profitable venture for the poet. However, Reid evidently was not enthusiastic about the project, for the material does not appear in the Tribune.
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