Vaughan, Frederick B. Letter to Walt Whitman. 1862.
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Type:
manuscript
Genre:
correspondence
Abstract:
This letter from Fred Vaughan to Walt Whitman was sent on May 2, 1862.
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Walt,
I am to be marri’d tomorrow, Saturday at 3 o’cl at 213W. 43rd St. —near 8th Ave.
I shall have no show! I have invited no company. — I want you to be there. —
Do not fail please, as I am very axious you should come. — Truly yours, Fred
Born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, Walt Whitman spent his childhood and early adulthood amid the sights and sounds of New York City and its environs.