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Title: Ellen M. Abdy-Williams to Walt Whitman, 16 March 1885
Date: March 16, 1885
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04623
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 notes: The annotation, "Two vols. L of G and S D sent [illegible] March 31 '85," is in the hand of Walt Whitman. The annotation, "EMA Williams," is in an unknown hand.
Contributors to digital file: Alex Kinnaman, Stefan Schöberlein, Ian Faith, Kyle Barton, and Nicole Gray
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Time.
EDITED BY E. M. ABDY-WILLIAMS.
MONTHLY, PRICE ONE SHILLING.
EDITORIAL ROOM.
W. SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO.,
WHITE HART STREET,
PATERNOSTER SQUARE,
LONDON, E.C. March 16th
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Dear Sir
The P.O. people here say they have heard nothing of your books. Can they be detained at the P.O. on yr. side of the water?
Yrs
faithfully
Ellen M. Abdy Williams
Walt Whitman
Rejected MSS. cannot be returned unless cover in Postage Stamps accompanies them.
Correspondent:
Ellen Mary Abdy-Williams
(1857–1937) was a British author and journalist, who began editing the
literary periodical Time in 1885. She was married to
education reformer Bernhard Whishaw (1857–1914) and published some of her
work as "Mrs. Bernhard Whishaw."