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Eliza Langley to Walt Whitman, 9 March 1889

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  • Title: Eliza Langley to Walt Whitman, 9 March 1889
  • Date: March 9, 1889
  • Creator(s): S. Langley | Eliza Langley
  • 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.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kirby Little Caterina Bernardini Ian Faith Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Langley, S. and Eliza Langley. "Eliza Langley to Walt Whitman, 9 March 1889." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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 loc.03219.001.jpg 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—  loc.03219.002.jpg  loc.03219.003.jpg 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 books sent  loc.03219.004.jpg

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).

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