BIB_ID
335149
Accession number
MA 918.12
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
1866 Aug. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 24.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with postmark and addressed to "Abby H. Price / 279 East 55th St. / 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.
Written on Attorney General's Office 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.
Written on Attorney General's Office stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Helen E. Price before 1913.
Summary
Asking if she has a room available to let for the period of his trip to New York, noting that he does not want to inconvenience his family and is coming north "to bring out a new & much better edition of Leaves of Grass complete - that unkillable work!" Describing his employment at the Attorney General's Office and noting that he still visits the one Soldiers Hospital on K Street each week.
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