Camden1
June 3 '80
I start at 8 this evening for Niagara Falls2—& so on farther west, North, &c. My address for six or eight weeks to come will be care of Dr Bucke, London, Ontario, Canada. I am well as usual—
W W
Notes
- 1. This letter is addressed:
Mrs Gilchrist | 5 Mount Vernon Hampstead | London England. It is postmarked:
Camden | Jun | 3 | N.J.; Philad'a Pa. | Jun | 4 | Paid All; London(?) | D6 |
Paid | Ju 14 80. [back]
- 2. Whitman was accompanied
by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, who had come to Camden on May 25. See also Specimen Days (ed. Floyd Stovall [New York: New York
University Press, 1963], 236–237). On June 1 Whitman made a new will in
which he appointed George and his wife as executor and executrix. At the time he
had approximately $1000 in the Brooklyn Savings Bank and about $800 in
the National State Bank in Camden. He bequeathed four-sevenths of his estate to
Edward and one-seventh each to Mary Van Nostrand, Hannah Heyde, and his nieces,
Mannahatta and Jessie (Whitman House, Camden). [back]