Record ID:
334059
Accession number:
MA 918.2
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.9 cm
Notes:
Written on Department of Justice stationery.
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.
Summary:
Sending her Christmas greetings. Mentioning that he dined at O'Connor's that day and is invited to the Channings' that evening, but will probably not go. With a postscript remarking on the chiming of the bells and the beautiful moonlit night.
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Helen E. Price before 1913.
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