UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

FRED NEWTON SCOTT
Rhetoric

ANN ARBOR Nov. 26, 1907.

Dear Carpenter, -

I enclose a bibliography of German literature about Whitman, and German translations of Whitman. Credit for it should go to Professor O. E. Lessing, of the Department of German, in the University of Illinois. He probably knows more about this phase of the Whitman question than any other person in this country.

I enclose a few quotations, the sources of which I have been unable, in my indolence, to discover. Will you kindly cast your eye over them, and if you recognise an old familiar friend, indicate the source? If the provenience does not at once suggest itself to

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