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Title: Walt Whitman to Jessie Louisa Whitman, 23 April 1874

Date: April 23, 1874

Whitman Archive ID: wcu.00005

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431 Stevens st.
cor West.
Camden,
N. Jersey,
April 23, 1874.

My dear niece,

I received your nice good letter—and also Hattie's1 a week or two before2—& have been very much pleased with them. I want you both to continue. I am not much different in my health—no worse. All the rest here are well. This little cut picture was one I intended to send last Christmas, but it got lost in my papers—so I enclose it now, for fun—

Best love to you, dear child, & to my dear Hattie too, from
Uncle Walt—

I will write to Hattie soon—


Correspondent:
Jessie Louisa Whitman (1863–1957) was the second and youngest daughter of Whitman's brother Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman (1833–1890) and Jeff's wife Martha Mitchell Whitman (1836–1873).

Notes:

1. Manahatta Whitman (1860–1886), known as "Hattie," was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson ("Jeff") and Martha ("Mattie") Whitman, Walt Whitman's brother and sister-in-law. Hattie and her sister Jessie were both favorites of their uncle Walt. [back]

2. These letters have not been located. [back]


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