Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 20 February [1873] a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding The Walt Whitman Archive Staff Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa National Historical Publications and Records Commission 2012 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 nyp.00308 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Kenneth M. Price Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Edwin Haviland Miller Walt Whitman The Correspondence New York New York University Press 1961–1977 199 2 Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 20 February [1873] February 20, 1873 Manuscript Collection 1767 The Oscar Lion Papers, New York Public Library Walt Whitman Louisa Van Velsor Whitman added schematron declaration blessed updated Oscar Lion encoded extracted transcription from Major Authors cd Thursday afternoon Feb. 20.

Well, mother, it's over at last with dear Matty—I got a dispatch of her death on the evening of the 19th—I suppose you have too, of course—It must have been a relief from very great suffering, as Jeff's letters of late described it— poor dear sister, she has many real mourners—I have just written to Han about it— I am about the same—rather better—

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