loc_tb.00278.jpg
The Morton C[cut-off]
Portsmouth, O.,
J[cut-off]
Walt Whitman Esq1
My Dear Sir
Please send me your autograph on enclosed card
I have written you so often for it but am very anxious for it and so persist
in writing
[cut-off]
loc_tb.00279.jpg
Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about
this correspondent.
Notes
- 1. Because
Whitman wrote notes about his birthday—May 31, 1891—on the back
of this autograph request, the letter was likely received earlier that year. [back]