BIB_ID
334040
Accession number
MA 918.5
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
[1872] Jan. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.4 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.
Year of writing identified by Miller.
Year of writing identified by Miller.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Helen E. Price before 1913.
Summary
Mentioning her recent visitors (George and Lou), noting she must have had an exciting week; remarking on "the satisfaction to be by one's self, as you grow old -- (though perhaps not too much)" and hoping that neighbors call on her frequently. Looking forward to his planned two-month visit home.
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