Mary Ashton Rice Livermore autograph letter signed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Melrose, Mass., 17 February 1882

Thanking him for his clever buying of books for "Harvard Annex"; confessing her disgust at the welcome given Oscar Wilde in Chicago and Boston, and telling of refusing to receive Whitman's poems as a gift through the mail for fear of being arrested. Old folder #: 82.
Courtesy of Boston Public Library