1863 Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson about Walt Whitman (Teaching with Documents)

--Lee Ann Potter
During the Civil War, poet Walt Whitman was eager to work for the government. Though federal jobs weren’t easy to come by, a letter of recommendation from Ralph Waldo Emerson was able to push open government doors.

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