Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [26? March 1866] a machine readable transcription Louisa Van Velsor Whitman Wesley Raabe Felicia Wetzig Transcription and encoding Zachary King Wesley Raabe Felicia Wetzig Elizabeth Lorang Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa Kent State University National Historical Publications and Records Commission 2012 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 duk.00467 Louisa Van Velsor Whitman Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [26? March 1866] March 26?, 1866 III-5D The Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Richard Maurice Bucke Louisa Van Velsor Whitman Walt Whitman added schematron declaration changed 'rent' to 'rents' merged files Replace internal notes with external notes Duke Proofreading Corrections Proofreading Corrections: Heyde dates and Silent Proof updated TEI header to follow new encoding of respStmt within titlStmt; moved notes to external notes file and replaced with ptr encoding; removed empty opener elements Proofreading Corrections Proofreading corrections. Moved RMBucke to HandNote; fixed editor, date, and title; reviewed paragraphing Replaced smart quotes with straight; removed external URL links. Complete proofreading corrections and date letter more tightly given Hannah's letter and Walt's reply. Replace straight quotes with smart quotes annotate letter reference regularized spelling added call no. added annotations Transcribe two surfaces about end March 1866 My dear Walt

i thought i would write a line as i wanted to send hans letter i was very glad indeed to hear from han i was afraid she was ill or something the matter well Walt i succeded succeeded in getting the 5 dollars without any trouble whatever but i dident didn't know nor Jeff but george said that it was all right well Walt here we all are without so much as a shanty to cover us and all the houses or the most of them for sale the most of people say that rents will come down but i gess guess they will be high enoughf enough for the most of us george is building his shop and he gets very tired he had never ought to have commenced to work at his trade he says he had aught ought to have staid stayed in the army) and if his money was not invested he would go south Jeff says he ought to have patience and wait there will be work bye and bye george says i wanted him so much to buy that lot in putman avenavenue so i did for i thought all his money would be gone and he would have nothing to show for it i sometimes wish i was to birmingham or some other out of the way place but here i must stay on the account of edd as he must live i suppose for somebody to support mrs brown goes out house hunting but i dont don't nor cant can't if i never get one i have as much as i can doo do to go up and down stairs no more

i got all the letters you have sent