BIB_ID
335474
Accession number
MA 918.30
Creator
Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor, 1795-1873.
Display Date
[1872] Oct. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.4 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed to "Miss Helen Price/ 331 East 55th Street. / New York City." The address is in the hand of Walt Whitman, and probably did not enclose this letter as he did not arrive in Camden until 20 May 1873.
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 inferred from contents of the letter: Louisa Whitman moved to Camden in August of 1872.
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 inferred from contents of the letter: Louisa Whitman moved to Camden in August of 1872.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Helen E. Price before 1913.
Summary
Describing the emotionally difficult time she had in packing up her Brooklyn house and moving with her son and daughter-in-law to Camden; noting that she has two rooms here but that it is a lonely place. Wishing Helen had visited her more while she was in New York, and giving her Camden address.
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