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Walt Whitman letters, 1863 July 27-1863 September 9
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 Derby, Rosalinda, 1812-1894 Haskell, Samuel Baldwin, 1810-1876
Whitman to Erastus Haskell's parents, Washington, D.C., August 10, 1863
1863-08-10
1 letter (4 pages)
Letter describes the final days of Erastus Haskell's life before his death from typhoid fever.
Rosalinda Derby was born in 1812 and died in 1894.
AHMC - Whitman, Walt
letters (correspondence) personal correspondence
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