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If Captain Cullen is a man of such worth and general good repute as seems probable from the telegram.
6 9 june 8 My dear walt i got your letter and you may expect i was glad enoughf enough to hear you was
Sir: Your reply of the 6th to my letter of the 4th inst. in regard to the employment of counsel for the
As I have already stated, my inquiries addressed to you were made at the request of the Secretary of
Esq.,—undertake the management of this defence, a reasonable compensation, founded on the basis of my
Sir: I have received your letter of the 31st ult., calling my attention to your claim as informer in
My only wish is, that your rights to be adjudged informer shall be fully and fairly investigated and
No other course will, in my opinion, be satisfactory to the Department of War, and I do not think it
return herewith the papers transmitted to me with your letter of the 7th of April last, requesting my
1870 June 1 My dear Walter i did feel so ansious anxious to hear from you and i cant can't help but feel
for a letter so bad thinking you will be better the next one but i hope you will not get discourage d my
The case is under the charge of my Assistant, Mr.
New York June 1/70 Friend Walter I now take my pen in hand to write to you I am in good health at Present
not want to lend me the I asked for, why Did you not write and say so—not to make out you Did not get my
of it when you was I though thought I would put you in—mind of it if I would be man Enough to keep my
I would not mind if you would give me my Clothes now as I need them very I cant can't go out any wear
My Discharge Papers are in the Hands of John P Hunt Attorney and Counsellor at Law 247 Broadway I wish
you would do me the favor of of of Looking up my Claim and Pushing it through for me as I have suffered
this John P Hunt and weather whether he is an authorized claim agent or not and about how Long Before my
May 21, 1869, from the then Secretary of War to me transmitting those papers, in which he requests my
prohibited by the Act of February 21, 1867, I have to say that, in accordance with your oral request made to my
My Father died May 2 nd and was buried on the 4 I was in Syracuse a few days before he died to see him
My Mother is not very well this summer Little Walt and the rest of my family are all well. he is quite
I am a married man but I am not happy for my disposition is not right.
21, 1867, Wilson acknowledged Whitman's reply of April 12, 1867: "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
Brooklyn May 11, 1870 Sir: The hurt on my hand has not healed.
Brooklyn May 11, 1870 Dear William, My hand has been pretty bad, but looks more encouraging to-day.
My Dear friend Walt I now take my pen in hand to let you know how I am getting along I am in very good
health at present & I hope you are the same. my father is not very well at present he has been Laid
I bought some medicine for a freind friend of my fathers & he gave me the money to pay for them & I Spent
Robbins & then I will be Disgraced & Discarged Discharged I asked my Sister to lend three & she would
It arises in my mind, as I write, to say something of that kind to you— I am not a little comforted when
I learn that the young men dwell in thought upon me & my utterances—as you do—& I frankly send you my
I am numbed with the frigid manners of the Christians; barbarism has given me the fullest joy of my life
duplicate printed copies of a poem I have written, "Passage to India," in which I endeavor to celebrate in my
price, time, selection of magazine, and in fact all the points of that sort, I leave absolutely to you— My
Nothing new or very different with my affairs. I remain in good health & spirits.
Sir: Since my letter of the 18th inst. yours of the 17th inst. has been received.
Nothing very new or different in my affairs.
here in Atty Gens office—same posish position —have good health—expect to bring out new editions of my
books before very long—how is the little boy—I send my love to him, & to your wife & parents.
wrote but then deleted: "O if we could only be together now even if only Dear Boy, dear, dear friend, my
In 1888 Walt Whitman commented to Horace Traubel about this letter: "I can't live some of my old letters
13 april 1870 My dear walt Walt i have received your letter to day the 13t i also got the papers on saturday
Saturday i am pretty well but my lameness that is bad enoughf enough my legs pains me real bad some
nights i cant can't sleep if i am on my feet much through the day i try to favor myself as much as i
Apl 13 th 18 70 My dear sir, I fear that the "Passage to India" is a poem too long and too abstract for
My dear Sir: The case involving the naturalization question was reached to-day in the Supreme Court,
highly esteem though I do not endorse or hold by all they teach two of the Books are connected with my
much mistaken in your love of Books, interspersed with fine stanzas of oriental Poetry, altogether in my
My life since we parted that July day upon the Treasury steps, has been one of hard work and little recreation
I have written so much of myself simply because you asked me of myself— My Dear Friend I hope and believe
5 April 1870 Brooklyn Apri l April 5 My dear Walt i have just received your letter and the order all
walter Walter dear its it's in your power to deal so generously to your mother) i am rather better of my
and from the facts which I have ascertained, I do not consider that it requires any further action on my
My address is at this office.
well as usual—still work in this office—still board at the same house in M Street—& I suppose hold my
I will not write a long letter this time—but send you my love—& charge you to write more regularly in
branches, I came home from Washington and applied myself, as soon as possible, to school and to study…My
Commissioner in Michigan, which you referred to me, and which bears the endorsement of my clerk.
My department has no control or supervision of the Commissioners, who are officers appointed by the Courts
I am numbed with the frigid manners of the Christians; barbarism has given me the fullest joy of my life
If I could only know that it has pleased you I should bless my stars fervantly.
sure of your friendship and I should try to life live the real life there for your sake as well as for my
(my address always ) Charles Warren Stoddard to Walt Whitman, 2 April 1870
March 30th 1870 Dear respected friend Feeling assured that any information of my doings and whereabouts
will meet with only the kindest reception from you, I venture once more, after my long silence, to address
If any excuse be neccessary necessary , let my respect and esteem be that excuse.
himself"; but I note telling you facts) and have just entered upon the study of Law; In conseq uence of my
Though we enjoyed our homeless life in Washington I think I have enjoyed my more wandering life since
L OUIS March 30th, 18 70 My dear Walt I suppose you think strange that I hav'nt written you before but
work goes on well we have delightful weather here everything looks like Spring I am glad I put off my
been ample and I should have enjoyed a visit with Mrs O Conner very much indeed Please convey to them my
love and express to them my hearty thanks for their kindness—also say to Mrs O C and family that we
28 March 1870 monday Monday My dear walt Walt i received your letter and paper with Jesse death in it
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
opinion, and should think that I ought to give it, I shall endeavor to do it at as early a date as my
I must beg to observe upon this,— supposing of course, it is my Department to which you refer—nothing
It is my rule to give notice to the officer concerned of any charges affecting his reputation as a man
more safely drawn the conclusion, when you learn that charges have been filed, that they did not, in my
is dead i will write to george George i feel very sad of course if he has done ever so wrong he was my
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
| May 1870 march March 23 My dear walt Walt i have just got your letter with the money in it i received
In accordance with what was orally said by you to my Assistant, Mr.
It is no part of my official duty to vindicate the rights of individual citizens, who have their remedy
Louis, Mar 18th 1870 My Dear Mother Mattie arrived all right on Wednesday abt about 3 ocl —in the afternoon—We
16 th dear Walt i will resume my corresspondence correspondence again haint you missed my letters very
tea and i got it with such pain that i could hardly keep from groaning the matter is i have been on my
Charles my younger boy and all the child we have left lives at home with us though it seems somewhat
Wilkins requests me to send you the enclosed papers from the files of my office—informing me that you
that I will get there in the evening and I have no doubt when I call on Masons they will insist on my
for St Louis this afternoon he was very sorry that he could not see you. but I am certainly coming on my
up this way are very modest so I got off quite an Elaborate elaborate address in which I expressed my
Phellow fellow Phelinx to the best of my abilities & wished the cause of Temperance Everlasting progress
interrupted with "hear" "hear" and any amount of cheering & in the midst of the cheering I brought my
I am still improving in health getting more blooming Every day Day people who saw me on my way here &
you will know it Just to see if you will recognize the Boy who left Washington some time ago got over my
febuary February 23 My dear walt i have just got your letter and was glad to hear from you and received
Jeff Whitman wrote that Mason "used to be in my party on the Water Works" (see his February 10, 1863
On that day, the Solicitor of Internal Revenue came into my office and said to me that the Supervisor
—There is in my Department no list of U. S.
With the facts you state in your letter, I understand very well what impression my telegram made upon
Tenn. dated the 8th inst. in relation to his claim for bounty, with your endorsement thereon, asking my
I hope, therefore, that you will excuse me from undertaking a service beyond my official duty.
You will please accept my thanks for the manner in which those services were rendered.
I should be glad to give the Committee any aid in my power, if I had any knowledge or opinion upon the