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Title: Martha B. H. Williams to Walt Whitman, 21 December 1884
Date: December 21, 1884
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04870
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.
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Instead1 of waiting until the afternoon can you not come to dinner 2 o'clock Wednesday. I hope you will bring me the picture you promised in the summer. Prepare to stay two or three days we are going to have a jolly time. Your Christmas stocking is ready.
M. B. H. Williams
Correspondent:
Martha B. Houston Williams was the
wife of playwright and poet Francis Howard Williams, whose home in Germantown,
Philadelphia, the poet often visited, recalling it as "a sort of asylum (like
old churches, temples)." (See Horace Traubel, With Walt
Whitman in Camden, Tuesday, September 18, 1888.)
Notes:
1. This letter is addressed: Mr Walt Whitman | No 238 Mickle Street | Camden N.J. It is postmarked: CAMDEN, N.J. | (?) | 22 | (?) AM | 1884 | REC'D.; PHILADEPLPHIA | G | DEC 21 84 | 5 PM [back]