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Garaphelia Howard, | My dear friend: Accept the thanks of many sick & wounded soldiers, for the $10,

you will send me ten dolls dollars not all at one time but if you can send me 5 at the next writing my

seems such A short time since last winter but time wont won't wait for us well Walt i dident didn't get my

fool as to use all the money i had in the bank and save the other now i want it and wish i had saved my

1865 Novem November 25 My dear Walt i have been looking for a letter all day but none came so it is saturday

Saturday night and i am alone for A wonder so i thought i would write you a few lines although my paper

in the nation it is a long piece with flourishes) the one in the union made me laughf laugh you got my

a woman to come every day and doo do up her work little jimmy comes as usual no more to night with my

1865 November 14 tuesday Tuesday noon Nv Nov 14 My dear Walt i have waited and waited to hear from you

I have entirely recovered from my wounds long since and have been at work part of the time and attending

I have been at work about six weeks, consequently my hand is not in very good condition for writing.

I have been promising myself to write to you ever since I returned home but have failed to keep my promise

If I can not go into anything there, what do you think of my going further south, say to Savannah.

I am a married man but I am not happy for my disposition is not right.

On April 21, Wilson acknowledged Whitman's reply of April 12: "I do not want you to misunderstand my

motives in writing to you of my Situation & feelings as I did in my last letter or else I shall have

to be more guarded in my letters to you.

I wrote so because you wanted me to write how I was situated, and give you my mind without reserve, and

But I have been very much occupied in thought, as well as much of my time in going daily, & some days

Give him my love if you see him. Jeannie is well, & sends love.

Give my love to your mother, & with much love to you - hoping soon to see you. Yours— Nelly.

Andy, my dear comrade—I rec'd yours of 24th, with enclosure of letter. Two others previously.

Andy, my programme is, to vote here early Tuesday forenoon, & then start immediately for Washington—So

My Dear Friend, Tis a long time since I have had the pleasure of hearing from you so I fear you did not

I am getting around quite lively on just a single cane and my health is good.

Now good bye, my good freind and may heaven keep you safe from harm. Anson Ryder, Jun.

brought down here to the front basement, & has in every respect improved much since last Saturday—Then my

will next week be put in the hands of a New York publisher & launched on the market—at least that's my

design at present — When you write tell me all about William—My mother returns bringing cheerful intelligence

whole—& is herself in splendid condition—havn't seen her look & apparently feel better in many years—My

My dear Walt: The article you sent Nelly from the London Leader is in my possession. Good!

If, ever since I have been here, I had not had the worst cold I ever had in my life—a cold which has

made me really sick and spoiled the pleasure of my visit—I should doubtless have ere this sent off the

On my way through New York I enquired at Harpers for Curtis and found he was out of town.

My wife returns your friendly remembrance and yours, I hope, has not forgotten me.

My sister Jeannie's little Mary is very sick with typhoid fever too, but they hope not dangerously so

you since I rec'd your last letter or not—but it came safe, & was glad to hear from you—write soon, my

the perfect copies soon—we had a fine long pouring rain here all last night—I am writing this home at my

My dear Nelly, I sit down home here in the front basement alone to write you a few lines.

I find it makes a mighty difference in my visit—(What is home without—&c)— My dear little California

worse—the fourteen days are up next Sunday—meanwhile she grows weaker & weaker— I am middling well—My

I send my love to Charles Eldridge—same to Ashton—when you write tell me the latest from the baby & Mrs

on the finger —and I have just got well of it—and a cussed bad time I had of it too—it accounts for my

help but think so much about him i suppos suppose its because i am here and have the children to take my

want to get some flannel and stocking and a few other things han says she will write to you soon give my

right—found Han better than she expected she says  I have been suffering since Friday with a "run-around" on my

was a gentleman in the cars that said he would see to getting me a carriage i was just giving the man my

check for my valice valise i thought i would take that with me when Charley came up so i got along very

My employer is at home but a very small portion of his time.

My dear friend, I have just received your note.

institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my

Dear son, I did not finish my letter because I have not been able to get the little picture of Lincoln

& Washington —but I succeeded in getting one this morning—I send it as a little present to my dear boy

live at the same place in M street, 468—only I have moved into the front room—it is pleasanter—I have my

meals brought up to me—my landlady gives me very good grub, $32.50 a month—Well I must draw to a close

Now, Ally, I must bid you good by, & I send you my love, my darling boy, & also to your parents, for

I have changed my back room to the front room, & have my meals sent up by the landlady—She gives me very

very pleasant & sufficiently cool—after the melting hot summer—I am writing this in the office, by my

Well, my dear comrade, how are you, & how does it go?

I send you my love, & God bless you, dearest comrade—Write soon, dear son, & give me all particulars.

My Dear Uncle W, Your very kind letter of the 16th was duly received and appreciated to the best of my

I do not know whether there are any characters among my neighbors that would interest you particular

My Dear & Esteemed Freind I take the present opporutnity to write you these few lines to inform you that

any answer i think it very Strange i recived these two pictures and give one to wilson, and kept one my

OFFICE, Washington Aug. 15, 1865 Dear Anson, As there is a sort of lull and quiet for a short time in my

My dear friend; I am sorry you could not have been with me for a day or two before you left Washington

writing this at the office, otherwise I would enclose one of the card photographs in it—they are up at my

room—I will send one in my next.

Write how your leg is—Give my best remembrances to Wood—he is a good man & I hope he will prosper through

Wood is with [me] here at my old home says it is not very natural here does not seem at all like an hospital

with George Washington Whitman in the Fifty-first New York Volunteers, and he rose to the rank of captain

Mason who "used to be in my party on the Water Works" in his February 10, 1863 to Walt Whitman.

Walt Whitman Dear Friend I am now at my own home but hav not got my discharge yet.

I have to go back to rochester to get my discharge. the day that I left thare went to the patent ofice

them kicked me on the forehead and then they start to run and the wagon wheel struck me on the back of my

My friends their respects Please if get this rite and if you will Please to sennd me that potographs

about your dismissal from the Interior Department, and as I once read your book, I am moved to express my

the President coming in and we stept back into the East Room and stood near the front windows, where my

It didn't last more than three or four minutes, but there was something about a letter which my friend

I expect to be in Washington on my way down South in a few days and will take the freedom of giving you

Please don't mention my name in connection with what I write about Harlan.

Walter Whitman— Sir i take my pen in hand to let you know that i am well and i hope that these few lines

may find you the same i have not got a way yet from this hospittle but i think that my papers will be

home. i am sorry that i did not think to tell you to not mind what he told you Well i must [close] My

Y., July 16th 1865 My dear brother We duly received your letter —We of course all felt very indignant

are well  the baby is a little down just now—but I guess she will be all right again in a few days—My

she manages to quarrell me out of it—so that I leave it half eaten—she begins by questioning me about my

women [Heyde's art students],...and goes so far as to intimate that I have sexual intercourse with my

pupils, at my room This is damned mean—reckless characterless, common, and disgusting" (Trent Collection

Realy my experience robs my heart of all charity—Han has a plausible superficiality, but under that she

talk of the Vetterans getting out yet: if you have any thing in the way of advice to give concerning my

Books, and I have thought that were bigger fools than me making a living very Easy although I admit my

note by Whitman following the closer that reads, "June 25th '65—I have rec'd many curious letters in my

occasionaly showed some little kindness to—I met him, talked with him some,—he came one rainy night to my

such houses as we were talking about,' are—upon the whole not to be answered—(& yet I itch to satisfy my

perhaps to receive a note from one whose name even you do not know, but I have long had you down in my

heart as one of my friends, and will tell you all about how I came to write to you now.

Last week I had a letter from my friend Miss M. E.

Often when I am reading it I take the words right home to my heart, and feel stronger and better for

friend forever, though I may never see his face, and this must be my excuse now.

If you see Miss H[oward] please tell her I am sorry she did not call at my company the evening she was

My dear friend, The Homer has come & is now lying before me. I thank you deeply.

I enjoy my visits with a sad but profound joy & satisfaction—especially at night, when the light is nearly

to be spent &c  Mattie and the children are very well—I am writing this at the office with Hattie at my

—1865 June 3 My dear Walt I once more send you A few lines to let you know we are all pretty well it

letter to Hanna yesterday but I have not finished it yet but will try too to to day and to morrow if my

head dont don't hurt me I have considerable distress in my head seems to affect my eyes but is better

after I get up in the morning and wash my eyes in cold water matty is very kind to me when I feel well

part I have got pretty short I wish if you can walt you would send me enoughf enough to pay my rent

I was in Washington the 2nd and I went to No 34 4 ½ Street and pawned my Watch a good American Lever,

for $22.07 which I was to pay within a month but I was robbed of my pocket Book which contained a receipt

John Gibson Wright rose from captain to colonel in the Fifty-first Regiment; he was appointed to the

According to Jeff's letter of May 14, 1865, George wanted an appointment in the regular army as captain

had a letter from George a few days ago—Mother tells me that George is wanting to get a position as Captain

in the regular Army—I have though[t] considerably about it and have made up my mind if we all go to

work it could be done quite easy —Jule Mason was at my house yesterday and I had a long talk with him

talk the matter over—he can and will help us if we will only make the effort I am going to try all in my

When you see George give my love to him—talk over the matter that I have written abt. and see what he

I sleep here in the building (I have a very good room) and take my meals at a Boarding house  I pay 6

Alvord's receipt for my plates, in his vault. Walt Whitman to Peter Eckler, 3 May 1865

My Brothers James & Joseph are both well and in the Regt and wish me to return thanks for your kind remembrance

We finished our march to this place last Thursday afternoon and as soon as we halted my Regiment were

My heart is to full to write anything about him, for I cannot tell how well he was liked by the Soldiers

I am pained to say that many of my company secretly rejoiced when we received the news of the assasination

There are a large number of my comrades buried there and I should like to have the satisfaction of seeing

The copy of "Leaves of Grass" is at my office subject to your order.

sitting by him, and soothing him, and he liked to have me—liked to put his arm out and lay his hand on my

were hurt by being blamed by his officers for something he was entirely innocent of—said, "I never in my

My Dear Comrade: . . .

me whenever you feel like it—tell me all about things & people down there in Kentucky—God bless you, my

As there was nothing done yesterday & the day before on account of the funeral, my waiting for your reply

My dear William & Nelly O'Connor, I write a few lines to tell you how I find the folks at home—Both my

My brother would be in what I would almost call fair condition, if it were not that his legs are affected—it

I find myself perplexed about printing my book.

My brother Jeff wishes me to give you his sincerest thanks for your good will &c in the matter of the

My sister at Burlington Vt. is not well, & mother will probably pay a long visit there this summer.

morning yours of March 14th —I am deeply sensible of the interest you have taken for me and return my

to fill—it is an entirely different branch of the profession from that in which I have been engaged—My

and the general superintendance of building a piece of work—As a draughtsman I am totally deficient—my