yr's of 22d rec'd & welcomed. Am still laid up in the sick room—havn't been out in most a year. (Get along though better than you would suppose)—Come and see me if you make y'r trip—Give my love to Jo Hyer2 & any other inquiring friends. Jeff3 was here a little while ago, he is in St Louis
Walt Whitman loc_gt.00071.jpgCorrespondent:
Samuel Goodman Stanley
(1830–1909) was raised in Brooklyn before heading to California during the
1849 Gold Rush. Upon returning from California in the early 1850s, Stanley
established a sash and blind building company, with two branches in Brooklyn and
Washington D.C. According to Stanley's letter to Whitman of July 13, 1886, he was an old friend of the poet's
from Brooklyn. During the Civil War years, Stanley seems to have been in
Washington, and he recalled standing near Secretary Chase's residence when
Abraham Lincoln passed by.