I receive your kind and affecinate letter2 on Saturday and was glad to hear from you and that you are well and hearty I am gaing very fast I feel beter now than I have in some time It is very warm here to day the German People are agoing to have a great time here to day other wise things is about the same things is very quite here in loc.01868.002_large.jpg the City I should like very much [damage] to washington but I can not afford it at presant it cost me a great deal when I was sick but every thing is paid and I have a little left so I shall have to get someing to do very quick or I shall be bankrupt with out any money I have not found any thing yet I started out this morning to look for work I do wish I could find something there to do so we could be togather that would be so nice I know I should like loc.01868.003_large.jpg it You say your are very busy now I supose this is a busy time of the year with you is it not yesteryday was a nice day I went to church & S School so as I do not think of any thing more I will close. so good by for this time
I remain your affecinate Son John M RogersP S write Soon with love I am yours
John4
loc.01868.004_large.jpg loc.01868.005_large.jpg John Rogers: April 10 '71 loc.01868.006_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.