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Title: Eliza Langley to Walt Whitman, 9 March 1889
Date: March 9, 1889
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03219
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.
Editorial note: The annotation, "books sent," is in the hand of Walt Whitman.
Contributors to digital file: Kirby Little, Caterina Bernardini, Ian Faith, and Stephanie Blalock
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Lovejoys Circulating
Library.
Office of the Southern Counties' Estates
Register
and Lovejoys Household Almanack &
Year Book
Miss Langley,
Bookseller & Publisher
Stationer. Bookbinder.
Printer.
Engraver.
Die Stamper. &c.
Land House And Estate
Agent
agent for
the Liverpool and London and Globe Fire &
Life Insurance Compny
SECOND-HAND BOOKS AND LIBRARIES PURCHASED
37 & 39, London Street,
Reading
March 9, 1889
To Mr. Walt Whitman—
Dear sir,
I desire to acknowledge, with many thanks, the receipt of two vols. of your works—"Leaves of Grass" & "Specimen Days".
And, now, will you be kind enough to send me one more set, for a lady, to whom I have
just shewn my set. I enclose a P.O. order for 15/– in payment for her. Kindly address the
parcel as follows—
To Mrs.(General) Faber,
c/o Miss Langley,
39 London Street,
Reading
England
Have you any other volumes published, beside the two which I have, today, received? If so, kindly let me know titles & price.—
With compliments, & every good wish for your welfare—
I am, dear sir, yours faithfully
E. Langley
Correspondent:
Eliza Langley (?–1897) was
the proprietress of a well-known bookselling, library, and stationery
establishment on London Street in Reading. After serving as a manageress to
George Lovejoy, the former owner of the business, she purchased it from his
trustees in 1884 and acted as proprietress until her death in December 1897. She
was the daughter of George Langley, a paper-maker for Ford Mills, in Kent
("Obituary" [for Miss Langley], The Bookseller No. 482
[January 13, 1898]: 16).