BIB_ID
335450
Accession number
MA 918.26
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
[1873] Sept. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.9 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with postmark and addressed to "Mrs. Abby H. Price / 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.
Year of writing identified by Miller.
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.
Year of writing identified by Miller.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Helen E. Price before 1913.
Summary
Assuring her that he will get well, but will stay in New Jersey for the present; thanking her for an invitation to visit New York, noting he will write her ahead of time if he is able to come. Mentioning that his brother Jeff stopped in Camden briefly on his way from St. Louis to New York and that he may call on the Prices. Asking that Helen thank Miss Hillard for her letter of condolence on his mother's death, noting "I have not felt to write her, or any one buy my sisters, about mother's death -- the great dark cloud of my life -- the only staggering, staying blow & trouble I have had -- but unspeakable -- my physical sickness, bad as it is, is nothing to it."
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