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WALT WHITMAN AND 'JEFF' - RARE LETTER TO HIS BROTHER. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Post ...
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WALT WHITMAN AND 'JEFF' - RARE LETTER TO HIS BROTHER. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Post Card Signed ('Walt Whitman') to his brother Thomas Jefferson Whitman noting the efforts for his cottage fund, 1 p, 76 x 43 mm, June 13, 1887, trimmed along left hand side. WITH: Carte de Visite photograph of Walt Whitman, 81 x 53 mm, mounted on card 100 x 60 mm, oval portrait by V.W. Horton of J. Gurney and Son, stamped to the verso, 'Collection of Americana/ Frederick H. Meserve....' WITH: Carte de Visite photograph of Whitman's brother Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 101 x 61 mm, mounted on card 103 x 61 mm, a full length portrait facing left, attributed to Matthew Brady(?), annotated in pencil to the verso, 'From Charles J. Feinberg.' RARE POST CARD SIGNED FROM WHITMAN TO HIS FAVORITE BROTHER 'JEFF' — THOMAS JEFFERSON WHITMAN. Jeff was born in 1833, when Walt Whitman was 14 years old. Walt and Jeff developed a particular affinity early on, with Whitman noting he 'had much care of him for many years afterward, and he did not separate from me.' Their sister Hannah described Jeff's bond of friendship with his older brother as 'Closer as it were than a brother.' Scholars have noted the special relationship with Jeff as a prototype for Whitman's older-younger brother pattern of male friendships, in his work with soldiers during the war, and afterward as seen in his relationships with Peter Doyle and Harry Stafford, in particular. This rare post-card to Jeff in St. Louis is written in 1887, the year after the death of Jeff's oldest daughter Hattie and the same year he was passed over for his third term as St. Louis Water Commissioner. The familiarity of Whitman's note attests to the closeness the two maintained, even as the volume of their correspondence diminished. Whitman notes a recent publication ('November Boughs' in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine) and references 'a Boston scheme afoot to get me a little house in the country or sea shore.' The scheme was a 'cottage fund' put together by Whitman's supporters hoping to buy him a cottage where he could rebuild his health. Instead Whitman used the money to fund his elaborate mausoleum at Harleigh Cemetery, modeled after William Blake's etching 'Death's Door,' where he would eventually be buried. Although Whitman and his brother Jeff produced a voluminous correspondence between 1847 and 1890 (see Berthold & Price, eds., Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 1984), this post card is the only surviving piece of it we trace at auction. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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WALT WHITMAN AND 'JEFF' - RARE LETTER TO HIS BROTHER. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Post Card Signed ('Walt Whitman') to his brother Thomas Jefferson Whitman noting the efforts for his cottage fund, 1 p, 76 x 43 mm, June 13, 1887, trimmed along left hand side. WITH: Carte de Visite photograph of Walt Whitman, 81 x 53 mm, mounted on card 100 x 60 mm, oval portrait by V.W. Horton of J. Gurney and Son, stamped to the verso, 'Collection of Americana/ Frederick H. Meserve....' WITH: Carte de Visite photograph of Whitman's brother Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 101 x 61 mm, mounted on card 103 x 61 mm, a full length portrait facing left, attributed to Matthew Brady(?), annotated in pencil to the verso, 'From Charles J. Feinberg.' RARE POST CARD SIGNED FROM WHITMAN TO HIS FAVORITE BROTHER 'JEFF' — THOMAS JEFFERSON WHITMAN. Jeff was born in 1833, when Walt Whitman was 14 years old. Walt and Jeff developed a particular affinity early on, with Whitman noting he 'had much care of him for many years afterward, and he did not separate from me.' Their sister Hannah described Jeff's bond of friendship with his older brother as 'Closer as it were than a brother.' Scholars have noted the special relationship with Jeff as a prototype for Whitman's older-younger brother pattern of male friendships, in his work with soldiers during the war, and afterward as seen in his relationships with Peter Doyle and Harry Stafford, in particular. This rare post-card to Jeff in St. Louis is written in 1887, the year after the death of Jeff's oldest daughter Hattie and the same year he was passed over for his third term as St. Louis Water Commissioner. The familiarity of Whitman's note attests to the closeness the two maintained, even as the volume of their correspondence diminished. Whitman notes a recent publication ('November Boughs' in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine) and references 'a Boston scheme afoot to get me a little house in the country or sea shore.' The scheme was a 'cottage fund' put together by Whitman's supporters hoping to buy him a cottage where he could rebuild his health. Instead Whitman used the money to fund his elaborate mausoleum at Harleigh Cemetery, modeled after William Blake's etching 'Death's Door,' where he would eventually be buried. Although Whitman and his brother Jeff produced a voluminous correspondence between 1847 and 1890 (see Berthold & Price, eds., Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 1984), this post card is the only surviving piece of it we trace at auction. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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