your letter came to hand last week2 and I was glad to hear from you This leaves me all well hopeing it may find you the same My Wife & Boy3 are well as can be Expected You spoke about your Picture I received one with a paper that I received from there some time ago
you want me to write all the particulars about my self I am not doing much at preasant work is very dull here and the waiges is small it is imposable to everage a liveing here from the pay that I receive for work last month I earned a bout
$(15.00) Dollars in the shop and this month I
shall not have above ten Dollars If it were not for what I make out side I should
come out short. And I expect to lose that chance for this reason they are a going to
open a cooperative Store and keep it open through the day loc.01873.009_large.jpg and unless I get a position in the
store I shall look for someing else to do It is a socity call the Soverigns of Inustry If you see any chanc for me to get any thing to do let me know as I have given you all the news
I will close
Correspondent:
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.