Hannah Whitman Heyde : : The Complete Correspondence / / Hannah Whitman Heyde [1823-1908]; ed. by Maire Mullins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Whitman Heyde [1823-1908], Hannah,
• HerausgeberIn: Mullins, Maire,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.) :; 10 b-w images

The correspondence of Hannah Whitman Heyde (1823-1908), younger sister of poet Walt Whitman, provides a rare glimpse into the life of a nineteenth-century woman. Married to well-known Vermont landscape artist Charles Louis Heyde (1820-1892), Hannah documented in letters to her mother, Louisa Van Vel...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Whitman Family Genealogy
• Introduction
• The Complete Correspondence
• 1. 1852–1853: Letters 1–3 “I am afraid you will be plagued to read this. . . .”
• 2. 1855: Letters 4–9 “I have more to regret than any of you. . . .”
• 3. 1856: Letters 10–19 “I hope I shall not die in a hotel. . . .”
• 4. 1858–1861: Letters 20–27 “I am afraid I have done wrong in telling you. . . .”
• 5. 1862–1865: Letters 28–37 “Have you heard from George
• 6. 1866–1868: Letters 38–42 “. . . this is only a line. . . .”
• 7. 1872–1873: Letters 43–51 “. . . try to not greive. . . .”
• 8. 1879–1892: Letters 52–62 “. . . I only wish I could do something for you. . . .”
• 9. 1905: Letter 63 “the birth place of my brother Walt Whitman”
• Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of the Whitman Family
• Appendix B: Obituary of Hannah Whitman Heyde
• Appendix C: Letters from Hannah Whitman Heyde
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Editor and Author