Walt Whitman to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Haskell, 27 July 1863 a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Edwin Haviland Miller Ted Genoways Transcription and encoding Elizabeth Lorang Tim Jackson Vanessa Steinroetter Alyssa Olson Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa National Historical Publications and Records Commission 2008 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 nyh.00001 Walt Whitman Edwin Haviland Miller The Correspondence New York New York University Press 1961–1977 1 119 Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Haskell, 27 July 1863 July 27, 1863 New York Historical Society Walt Whitman Samuel B. Haskell added schematron declaration converted to P5 proofread and modified added main TEI markup added TEI header structure w/o IDs and titles; added minimal TEI markup pulled transcription from Primary Source Media Washington July 27 1863 Mr and Mrs Haskell

Your son Erastus Haskell, of Co K 141st New York, is now lying sick with typhoid fever here in hospital.

I have been with him quite a good deal, from day to day, was with him yesterday & indeed almost every day, & feel much interested in the young man. He has been very sick, & seems to be so now, as I should judge, but the doctor says he will recover. I had a talk with the doctor yesterday, & he says so still. But Erastus seems to me very sick, & I thought I would write to you. He had some one write to you about two weeks ago, but has received no answer.

Erastus does not talk much, so I do not understand much about his affairs. I am merely a friend. The address of Erastus is

Ward E, Armory Square Hospital | Washington D C

should you wish to write to him direct.

Walt Whitman

care Major Hapgood, paymaster | U S A cor 15th & F st | Washington | D C

Upon second thought I enclose you an envelope to send your letter to Erastus—put a stamp on it, & write soon. I suppose you know he has been sick a great deal since he has been in the service.