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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Washington DC, to his mother Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, "Friday evening" [1872 Jan. 5].

BIB_ID
334056
Accession number
MA 918.6
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
"Friday evening" [1872 Jan. 5].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 15 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Helen E. Price before 1913.
Summary
Reporting that he and John Burroughs went to Baltimore the previous evening to hear Emerson speak, but remarking "it was not interesting to me at all." Mentioning his transfer to the Treasury Department and hoping that her cold is better.