Thomas P. Sawyer to Walt Whitman, 21 January 1864 a machine readable transcription Thomas P. Sawyer Dennis Berthold Kenneth M. Price Transcription and encoding Elizabeth Lorang Bev Rilett Eric Conrad Kathryn Kruger Nick Krauter 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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 nyp.00158 Charley Shively Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working-Class Camerados San Francisco, California Gay Sunshine Press 82-83 Thomas P. Sawyer Thomas P. Sawyer to Walt Whitman, 21 January 1864 January 21, 1864 Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at the New York Public Library Thomas P. Sawyer Walt Whitman added schematron declaration converted to P5 edited and proofed annotations updated TEI header checked and proofed Transcribed, Encoded Dear Brother Walter,

As I have just written to Lewis I thought I would try and pen you a few lines hooping that they will [find] you in the best of health and enjoying your self—and I wish I was there with you.

Dear brother I hardly know what to say to you in this letter for it is my first one to you but it will not be my last I should have written to you before but I am not a great hand at written and I have ben very buisy fixing my tent for this winter and I hope you will forgive me and in the future I will do better and I hope we may meet again in this world and now as it is getting very late you must ecuse this short letter this time—and I hope to here from [you] soon. I send you my love and best wishes. Good by from

Your Brother, Sergt Thomas P Sawyer

P.S.  if I knew your addrss I should not send it this Way. Good by Brother.