BIB_ID
335145
Accession number
MA 918.10
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
1865 Feb. 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.3 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
Mentioning that he is back in Washington and spends his free time going around to the hospitals as formerly; remarking that he encounters soldiers with old lingering wounds and sickness, and noting that the Corps Hospitals [at the front] are being closed and the soldiers are being sent to the Washington hospitals.
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