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Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Jessie Louisa Whitman, 23 December 1888

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  • Title: Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Jessie Louisa Whitman, 23 December 1888
  • Date: December 23, 1888
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: mhs.00002
  • Source: Missouri Historical Society. The transcription presented here is derived from Thomas Jefferson Whitman, Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman, ed. Dennis Berthold and Kenneth M. Price (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1984), 188. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger April Lambert
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Thomas Jefferson. "Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Jessie Louisa Whitman, 23 December 1888." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 04 December 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: mhs.00002.xml (TEI)
Milwaukee, Dec. 23 1888 My dear Jessie

A Merry Christmas to you—

I enclose a little momento as I could not let the day go by without reminding you that I thought of you

I hope you will like the muffler—I did not know but I thought perhaps this would suit your ideas—

Again a Merry, Merry Christmas—and I feel sad that I cannot be with you

Papa Tos. J. Whitman
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