Autograph Letter Draft to Alfred Pratt. WITH: Alfred Pratt’s autograph letter to Whitman

by Walt Whitman

$20,000 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

A LOVE LETTER FROM “FATHER WHITMAN” TO A CIVIL WAR SOLDIER. A rare and significant letter to one of the young soldiers Whitman aided at a military hospital during the Civil War. Whitman corresponded with Pratt for some 8 years, beginning after Pratt’s hospitalization in 1865.Whitman’s letter is a response to Pratt’s own of May 9, 1869, in which Pratt asks why he has not heard from Whitman despite having sent

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