as it is snowing here to night I was looking of some letter I came acrost one of your letter and as it some time cince I have seen or heard from you I though I would write a few lines to you [worn-away] am as well as I can be and am getting very Stout but how do you do and are you well and how do you get along this loc.01870.008_large.jpg cold weather it has been very Cold here I am now employed at the Contentatual Bank Note Co2 and I geting alon very nicely do much better than I did with the wood Co3
Last Sunday we had very largee fire in Brooklyn Dr. Talmage Church4 in Schrminhorn St. was destroyed and some very large fires in New York City Barnums Musimum 5 and a larg Printing Co in Center St but I supose you have heard of it ee'r this
loc.01870.009_large.jpgfor now I will close with love
I remain your John M Rogers Address John M Rogers 230 Duffield St Brooklyn loc.01870.010_large.jpg loc.01870.011_large.jpg Johnny Rogers, Dec 31 '72 loc.01870.012_large.jpgCorrespondent:
John (Jack) M. Rogers was a
Brooklyn driver with whom Whitman had a loving relationship. Whitman
first met him in Brooklyn on September 21, 1870. For more on Rogers and his
relationship with the poet, see Charley Shively, ed., Calamus
Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working-Class Camerados (San Francisco: Gay
Sunshine Press, 1987), 122–135.