The Walt Whitman Archive
Life & Letters
Correspondence
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Title: Walt Whitman to Emily Ingram, 20 March 1890
Date: March 20, 1890
Whitman Archive ID: unl.00002
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Camden1
PM March 20 '90
Thanks for the beautiful Bermuda white lilies wh' arrived in perfect order & are now in a big stone water cup before me—(one sent to the sick lady next door)
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
Emily Ingram was the
daughter of William Ingram, a Quaker who ran a Philadelphia tea store and was a
friend of Whitman's. Emily graduated from Penn Medical University and provided
care at prisons in the region.
Notes:
1. This postal card is addressed: Dr Emily J Ingram | Telford Penn:. It is postmarked: Camden | Mar 20 | 8 PM | 90. [back]