BIB_ID
335182
Accession number
MA 918.18
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
1868 Apr. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.5 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed to "Mrs. Abby H. Price / (new number ) / No. 331 East 55th Street / 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
Regretting that she did not receive his recent letter concerning the possible exemption of ruffles from the proposed new tax; noting that recent changes in the Attorney General's office have not changed his situation there; sending his regards to the whole family, saying he misses them; referencing the impeachment proceedings against Johnson.
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