I send today by Express a basket of fruit it ought to be emptied right away. The golden rod on the top will make a boquet for you, let me know if the 2 bottles of wine got broke I hope you are feeling better Mrs Ingram still keeps weak but is able to be around I am kept very busy looking after the fruit we all send much love
from Your Friend Wm Ingram loc.02360.002.jpg loc.02360.003.jpg See notes Sept 14th, 1888 loc.02360.004.jpgCorrespondent:
William Ingram, a Quaker, kept a tea
store—William Ingram and Son Tea Dealers—in Philadelphia. Of Ingram,
Whitman observed to Horace Traubel: "He is a man of the Thomas Paine
stripe—full of benevolent impulses, of radicalism, of the desire to
alleviate the sufferings of the world—especially the sufferings of
prisoners in jails, who are his protégés" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Sunday, May 20, 1888). Ingram and his wife visited the physician
Richard Maurice Bucke and his family in Canada in 1890.