Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 30 June [1869] a machine readable transcription Louisa Van Velsor Whitman Wesley Raabe Felicia Wetzig Transcription and encodingElizabeth Lorang Cathy TischFelicia WetzigWesley Raabe 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.00582 Louisa Van Velsor Whitman Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 30 June [1869] June 30, 1869 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 final check checked Duke Proofreading Corrections Proofreading Corrections: Heyde dates and Silent Proof Proofreading Corrections of notes. Review and add annotations; update Bucke Oral Proofreading Corrections Clean encoding (editor, date, remove "_large") and add standard annotations on unannotated files (Jeff W, Martha [Mattie], George W, Lou Haslam) Transcribe 2 surfaces Correct 2 surfaces 30 June 1869 June 30 June 30 My dear walterWalter

i will only write a very few lines this time i receevedreceived your letter to day wensdayWednesdayi withe with the contents all safe and i have been down to the post office and got the order changed it come good as we had got rather run ashore but walterWalter dear i had enoughf enough to get along i dont don't know how i should get on without you waltWalt but i suppose there would be some way they dont don't think that i have no way but what is given to me i suppose georgeGeorge thinks he finds me a house for his part well its good and i am thankfull thankful as we have never or not late years been fixed so nicely but at the same time we must have something else i have stood the hot weather pretty well it has been very warm indeed here and every where i suppose) i have had my face swelled and red and pricked so i dident didn't know what to doo do it is bloated some yet but dont don't feel such a heat as i have i think it must be the heat because i havent haven't been out in the sun so its not that) i have had a letter from jeffyJeffy and one from mattyMatty since i last wrote to you they both come emty empty but i suppose they have ways for all they have dont don't think i suppose mattyMatty says she is certainly coming on here this fall they have got intimately acquainted with a railroad agent so they think they can come free

georgeGeorge is away yet has been gone longer this time than any time yet i expect he will be home on saturday Saturday O waltWalt the papers came all safe i shall read them to night i am glad to get a paper i dont don't take any when georgeGeorge is gone only the little morning union a peny penny paper its better than none i beleive believe i wont won't write any more i feel so tired so good by Walt

love to all the folks