The Walt Whitman Archive
Life & Letters
Correspondence
About this Item
Title: George M. Culy Williamson to Walt Whitman, 21 December 1888
Date: December 21, 1888
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04495
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, "Williamson," is in an unknown hand.
Contributors to digital file: Ryan Furlong, Alex Ashland, Caterina Bernardini, and Stephanie Blalock
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Dear Mr Whitman
Enclosed I send you a small Christmas gift and hope it will not be the last that you will be able to receive from me. Wishing you many merry Christmases
I remain yours
G M Williamson
Correspondent:
George M. Williamson (b. 1850) was a New York
book collector who contacted Whitman several times about purchasing manuscripts,
and later published Catalogue of A Collection of Books,
Letters, and Manuscripts written by Walt Whitman, in the Library of George
M. Williamson, Grand View on Hudson (New York: The Marion Press, 1903).
Other items in Williamson's collection, which was sold at auction in 1908,
included George Washington's copy of Don Quixote, a
presentation copy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Evangeline," Nathaniel
Hawthorne's annotated copy of The Scarlet Letter, and "a
very remarkable collection of Walt Whitman's works" (The
George M. Williamson Collection [Anderson Galleries, Inc.,
1908]).
Notes:
1. A single line is drawn through the center of Williamson's letter. [back]