BIB_ID
335548
Accession number
MA 918.40
Creator
Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor, 1795-1873.
Display Date
[1872-1873].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 12.4 x 20.5 cm
Notes
Location and possible years of writing inferred from contents of the letter. Louisa Whitman moved into her son George's Camden home in August, 1872 and died in 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.
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 she is not well, and that both her nerves and appetite are bad; wishing she had not moved away from Brooklyn and wishing she could visit her daughters in Greenport.
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