BIB_ID
335487
Accession number
MA 918.32
Creator
Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor, 1795-1873.
Display Date
[1873] Jan. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.9 cm
Notes
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 and location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Year and location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Helen E. Price before 1913.
Summary
Describing how much she misses keeping her own house in Brooklyn and remarking on her dislike of Camden; noting, however, that George and Lou are good to her even if Lou does spend much of her time out of the house. Asking that Helen not refer to Louisa's dislike of Camden in her return letter, but to give news about her own family.
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