Your very kind note2 with 5 dollars, was safely handed to us, by postman—and timely as we were in need of a load of wood.
Han3 demirs at times lest you impoverish yourself, but I reply that you have good sympathisers, and those that appreciate your eminent talent, in allowance of all others.
She thought she would defer replying personaly for a few, days, but Walt, reading or writing overcomes her, nervously, and duk.00449.002_large.jpg she declares she can do neither a tremulous fever of the blood, so she requested me to write to you, and I enclose your note to her, to show that yours has been recieved—
The representatives at your dinner,4 were many the time advanced in humantarian ideas, sympathies—The Free Press noticed you generously, also Philadelphia Record. The weather is discouraging, so much heavy rain—Han complains of undue internal heat, bother but the inflamation has left her chin and cheeks. We must have a woman to clean house for her—She speaks of you daily—hourly—emotionally I have been sick (gripp) and allmost disabled—
Charlie Gratefully YoursCorrespondent:
Charles Louis Heyde (ca.
1820–1892), a French-born landscape painter, married Hannah Louisa Whitman
(1823–1908), Walt Whitman's sister, and they lived in Burlington, Vermont.
Charles Heyde was infamous among the Whitmans for his offensive letters and poor
treatment of Hannah. For more information about Heyde, see Steven Schroeder,
"Heyde, Charles Louis (1822–1892)," Walt
Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1998).