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Title: Josephine Webling to Walt Whitman, 15 November 1891
Date: November 15, 1891
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04849
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30 East 22nd Street
New York.
Sunday. Nov: 15th 1891.
My Dear Walt Whitman:
I thank you more than I can say for your autograph in my book, and also for the portrait. I shall always value both.
With every felicitation, and with all my heart,
I am sincerely and gratefully yours
Josephine Webling
Correspondent:
Josephine Emma Webling Watts
(1862–1942) was an English-born actress and lecturer. She began her stage
career at a young age, appearing in London theatricals together with her
sisters, Peggy, Lucy, and Rosalind. The sisters performed for the Prince of
Wales, future King Edward VII, and completed an American tour in the early
1890s. Around 1900, Josephine moved to the United States and married Alfred
Allen Watts, a Canadian printer. For more information, see Watts's obituary,
"Mrs. Jospehine Watts Services Conducted," in The
Courier–News (Bridgewater, New Jersey [April 15, 1942],
4).