BIB_ID
334034
Accession number
MA 918.4
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
1872 Jan. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.1 and 7.2 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Walt Whitman to Abby Price, his mother Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, and others. Items in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information.
Written on Department of Justice stationery.
Written on Department of Justice stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Helen E. Price before 1913.
Summary
Discussing the weather, describing a heavy fog that has lasted two days; noting that he is to be transferred to the Solicitor to the Treasury's office in the Treasury Building; mentioning that he has applied for a long leave of absence to commence about February 1 because he would like to come home and see about the new edition of his books; asking for news. With a postscript (on a small slip of paper, 7.2 cm) mentioning that Arthur Price [Abby Price's son] is at port on the Mahopac.
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