George M. Williamson to Walt Whitman, 1 June 1887
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No. 8 Franklin Place, Belfast, Ireland MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF L.C. HANDKERCHIEFS AND LINENS. GLENDINNING, McLEISH & CO. 32 WALKER STREET,
Cor. Church St. New York, June 1st 1887 Dear Mr. Whitman
I entended that this should have reached you on May 31st1 but being out of Town I was unable to send it
Please except the Enclosed small remembrance and I hope that you will live to see many springs & Summers with their Birds & Blossoms and yourself Enjoying good health and prosperity.
I remain yours GM Williamson
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Correspondent:
George M. Williamson (b. 1850) was
a New York book collector who contacted Whitman several times about purchasing
manuscripts, and later published Catalogue of A Collection of
Books, Letters, and Manuscripts written by Walt Whitman, in the Library of
George M. Williamson, Grand View on Hudson (New York: The Marion Press,
1903). Other items in Williamson's collection, which was sold at auction in
1908, included George Washington's copy of Don Quixote, a
presentation copy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Evangeline," Nathaniel
Hawthorne's annotated copy of The Scarlet Letter, and "a
very remarkable collection of Walt Whitman's works" (The
George M. Williamson Collection [Anderson Galleries, Inc.,
1908]).
Notes
- 1. May 31, 1887, was Whitman's sixty-eighth birthday. [back]