I received your letter on the 8th,2 & was
very glad to hear from you. I wrote to you, about 18 months ago; I wrote twice, but, as I did
not get an answer, I concluded that you had not received them. Then I saw in the paper, that you
were out in Canada, taking your vacation, so I did not write again, not knowing where to direct.
I am sorry to hear that you have been sick, but glad to hear that you are getting well again.3
You asked about my Grand-Mother,4 she is alive, but, I cannot say well. She
has had the Asthma pretty bad, but is not so much troubled with it now. She has the dropsy also.
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She has not been in bed for nearly a month, & is entirely deprived of the use of her legs.
The rest of us are enjoying pretty good health. I have 3 Brothers, Garrie, Georg, & Richard, & one sister, Mary5 Garrie [deletion] years old Geo. 10, Mary 7, Dick 6 & Walt 15. Grand Mother 87.
I go to school every day, to the public school. I attended an Academy last winter, but, my teacher went away, so I stopped going there
We are having a very mild winter, the ground having been bare for a week or two, & no frost in
the ground. Uncle George6 was up here last fall to see Grand Mother, but has
not been here since. You wrote me a very short letter, so it would not look well for me to write
a long one. I hope you will come up & see Grand Mother & the rest of us as soon as you
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get able. We have been repairing the house & have plenty of room
I thank you very much for all you have sent me. I would send you my picture but I want you to come & see me myself.
& very much Oblidge Your loving friend Walt. Whitman StormsP.S. Please excuse the writing as I am a very poor writer.
Correspondent:
Walt Whitman Storms (probably born
in 1858; see the letter from Herman Storms to Walt Whitman, January 11, 1865) was the son of Herman Storms (1822–1898) and the nephew of
George Storms (1829–1886), both New York drivers.