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Joaquin Miller

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Joaquin Miller

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Auction Date:2010 Jul 14 @ 22:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Pen name of the colorful American poet, essayist, and fabulist Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner) Miller (1841-1913). Original handwritten and signed poem entitled ‘To Walt Whitman’ on two 7.75 x 11.75 lightly-lined off-white sheets. This poem was originally published in the January 1877 edition of Galaxy magazine, and is the actual manuscript that was submitted to the magazine. The five-stanza poem begins:

“O titan soul, ascend your starry steep / On golden stair to gods and storied men! / Ascend! Nor care where thy traducers creep, / For what may well be said of prophets when / A world that’s wicked comes to call them good.”

A couple partial separations along intersecting folds, scattered creasing and soiling, stray ink marks to top left corners, and a couple small edge tears, otherwise very good condition. This poem was found among the papers of journalist William Conant Church who was the publisher of the Galaxy.