BIB_ID
335436
Accession number
MA 918.20
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
1868 Sept. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.5 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed to "Mrs. Abby H. Price / 331 East 55th Street / bet. 1st & 2d Avs. / 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.
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
Giving information about his train to New York the following day; saying he is glad that she has a room available for him to stay in, and insisting on paying for it "just the same as anybody else" because "I have lots of money -- in fact untold wealth."
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