BIB_ID
335511
Accession number
MA 918.37
Creator
Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor, 1795-1873.
Display Date
[1873 Feb. 22?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Date and location of writing inferred from contents of the letter: Whitman mentions that she is writing on a Saturday, and that Mattie died "last Wednesday 19th."
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed "Miss Helen Price / No. 331 East 55th St. / New York City / N.Y." This envelope probably did not enclose the present letter, as it is postmarked Mar. 31.
Mattie Whitman died of cancer on February 19, 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.
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed "Miss Helen Price / No. 331 East 55th St. / New York City / N.Y." This envelope probably did not enclose the present letter, as it is postmarked Mar. 31.
Mattie Whitman died of cancer on February 19, 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Helen E. Price before 1913.
Summary
Reporting that her daughter-in-law Mattie died last Wednesday the 19th; reporting that Walt is mending slowly but has been much affected by Mattie's death.
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