Am pretty well to-day (after being under the weather the past week)—Nothing new in my affairs—I am getting along comfortably—Shall soon send tear of a new piece of mine in a magazine.2 There is a Boston scheme afoot to get me a little house in the country or sea shore.3
Walt WhitmanCorrespondent:
Thomas Jefferson Whitman
(1833–1890), known as "Jeff," was Walt Whitman's favorite brother. As a
civil engineer, Jeff eventually became Superintendent of Water Works in St.
Louis and a nationally recognized figure. For more on Jeff, see Randall Waldron,
"Whitman, Thomas Jefferson (1833–1890)," Walt
Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1998).