BIB_ID
335136
Accession number
MA 918.8
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
[1860] Mar. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to "Abby M. [sic] Price / S.W. corner Greenwich and Horatio Streets, / New York / city."
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Helen E. Price before 1913.
Summary
Concerning preparations for the publication [of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass] by Thayer & Eldridge. saying he is more pleased with Boston than he anticipated, and mentioning that Emerson called on him immediately; describing his daily activities in Boston and wishing she lived there so he could call on her frequently.
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