LETTER TO C.W. POST
Creator(s): Walt Whitman (Author)
Currently in storage
About this object
Envelope addressed to Charles W. Post care of B.D. Buford and Co. Kansas City, Missouri and postmarked Feb 8 180. Letter, photo and envelope framed together. Letter reads: 431 Stevens Street Camden, New Jersey Feb. 8 '80 Dear young man, I thought to-day I would send you a little picture to show you I had not forgotten you or those meetings in St. Louis. I have been back here about a month and am tolerably well-how are you getting along? Let me know if you get the picture all right. Walt W Whitman. Photograph shows Walt Whitman as an old man with a full white beard. He wears a hat and his face is turned to the front, while his upper body is turned to the left. Signed Walt Whitman 1880.
- Object name:
- LETTER TO C.W. POST
- Made from:
- Paper
- Made in:
- USA
- Date made:
- 1880
- Size:
- H. 18 in., W. 5 in.
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 57.6
- Class:
- AUTOGRAPH
- Signature marks:
- SIGNATURE on letter and photograph: Walt W Whitman
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973