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1888. Photographer unknown: perhaps Francis Williams. Not in Saunders.
Courtesy Library of Congress. Back of Library of Congress copy
identifies this as "Family of Francis Williams, ca. 1888,"
taken at the Williams' house in Germantown, Philadelphia. Mrs.
Williams' face has been scratched out, and the Williams
children are Aubrey (in front of Whitman), Marguerite (behind
Whitman),
and Churchill (with gun). Francis Howard Williams was a
playwright and poet, and Whitman recalled "how splendidly the
Williamses have always received me in their home" which he
considered as "a sort of asylum."
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