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328 Mickle st—Camden1
NJ
Dec: 24 '88—
The beautiful handkerchiefs came all right—best love to you Dear J—&
thanks—I am better now & sit up most of the day—had some mutton-broth, toast & an
oyster for my breakfast—We are going to have fine weather
for Christmas—I rec'd a letter from Miss Harbinson2 ack'g the
book—My printing is all done & satisfactory—
Love to Jeff3—
Walt Whitman
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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. This postal card is
addressed: Miss Jessie Louisa Whitman | 2437 2d Carondelet Avenue | St Louis |
Missouri. It is postmarked: ST. [illegible] MO. | DEC | 26 | 7AM | 1888 | R; CAMDEN, N.J. | DEC24 | 8AM |
88. There is a partial, but illegible postmark on the recto of the postal
card. [back]
- 2. As yet we have no information about
this person. [back]
- 3. Thomas Jefferson Whitman
(1833–1890), known as "Jeff," was Walt Whitman's favorite brother. As a
civil engineer, Jeff eventually became Superintendent of Water Works in St.
Louis and a nationally recognized figure. For more on Jeff, see Randall Waldron,
"Whitman, Thomas Jefferson (1833–1890)," Walt
Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1998). [back]