Title: Walt Whitman to Blaine and Mary Donaldson, 25 December [1884]
Date: December 25, 1884
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01477
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt
Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Notes for this letter were derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented, updated, or created by Whitman Archive staff as appropriate.
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Christmas—1884—'5
328 Mickle Street Camden
N J1
Thanks my loving young friends for the magnificent chair—so opportune—will be so useful to me daily, hourly—Will soon come up & see you & your father & mother
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
Blaine and Mary Donaldson
were the children of Thomas Donaldson, a lawyer from Philadelphia and a friend
of Whitman.
1. This letter is addressed: Blaine and Mary | Donaldson | 326 North 40th Street | Philadelphia. It is postmarked: CAMDEN | DEC | 26 | 6 AM | 1884 | N.J. [back]