The Walt Whitman Archive
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Correspondence
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Title: Annie Fields to Walt Whitman, 13 March 1887
Date: March 13, 1887
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02049
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.
Contributors to digital file: Alex Kinnaman, Stefan Schöberlein, Ian Faith, and Stephanie Blalock
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148 Charles St. Boston1
March 13th 1887
My dear Sir:
I hope you will do us the favor to accept the enclosed invitation! And will you kindly take a bed at this house and allow the committee to defray the expenses of your journey?
Looking for a favorable reply and a promise to be my guest,2 I remain
Very truly yours
Annie Fields
Correspondent:
Annie Adams Fields
(1834–1915) was a Bostonian writer. She was the wife of James Thomas
Fields (of Ticknor & Fields) and had a literary salon at 148 Charles
St.
Notes:
1. A line has been drawn from near the upper left corner of the page to the bottom of the letter, near the lower right corner. [back]
2. There is no indication Whitman ever replied. [back]