BIB_ID
335466
Accession number
MA 918.29
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
1876 Oct. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed to "Miss Helen Price/ (or Mrs. Abby Price) / Red Bank / New Jersey."
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
Noting that he is "still jogging along here," and that he is "tolerably fair" about a quarter of the time and "the rest, by the skin of my teeth;" noting, however, that he is cheerful and content. Mentioning that his book in two volumes has been published; thanking them for a letter and for their friendship.
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