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Julia Hine to Walt Whitman, 12 November [1891]

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  • Title: Julia Hine to Walt Whitman, 12 November [1891]
  • Date: November 12, [1891]
  • Creator(s): Julia Hine
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.07427
  • 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: Cristin Noonan Amanda J. Axley Erel Michaelis Paige Wilkinson Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Hine, Julia. "Julia Hine to Walt Whitman, 12 November [1891]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 26 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.07427.xml (TEI)
 loc_ej.00715_large.jpg Flatbush L I [cut-away] Nov 12th

[cut-away] From time

[cut-away] of your

[cut-away] health

[cut-away] I will

[cut-away] surety

[cut-away] to my

[cut-away] Charles Hine1)

[cut-away]til form

[cut-away] how he

[cut-away] happy by

[cut-away] I read

[cut-away] to read

[cut-away] to write—a line to friends, if not asking too much. May I ask you for a line Lucy2 who you fondled on your knee is now married & a family of three children now over 30 years old.

With love & sympathy from us both with your sympathizingly Mrs Chas Hine Box 12 E Mrs Charles Hine Flatbbush L I

Correspondent:
Caroline Hine was the widow of the artist Charles Hine, who had died on July 31, 1871, only days after a visit by Whitman. After Charles's death, Caroline Hine continued to correspond with Whitman. In her August 4, 1871, letter to Whitman, for example, she explained that she would have difficulty caring for three children because her financial means have been exhausted by her husband's illness and death. She also visited Whitman's mother, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman (1795–1873).

Notes

  • 1. Charles Hine (1827–1871) was a portrait and figure painter best known for his nude figure entitled Sleep. Hine did an early oil painting of Walt Whitman, which served as the basis for Stephen Alonzo Schoff's engraving of the poet for Leaves of Grass (1860). [back]
  • 2. Lucy is one of the daughters of Charles (1827–1871) and Caroline P. Woodman Hine (1833–1903), who, by 1891, had a family of her own. [back]
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