BIB_ID
334059
Accession number
MA 918.2
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
1871 Dec. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.9 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
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.
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