BIB_ID
335438
Accession number
MA 918.21
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
1868 Oct. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed to "Mrs. Abby H. Price / 331 East 55th Street / bet. 1st & 2d Avenues / 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 travel plans to New York the following day and his intentions to go on to Washington the following Monday; mentioning several mutual acquaintances and noting that he has been treated "with the greatest hospitality & courtesy" during his trip to Providence.
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