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in one ear and out the other her mother lives in brooklyn Brooklyn has her second husband she was in my
be alone) well walter Walter i have the whis p er s of heavenly death it lays here on the table by my
and have had one person ask me to let her take it hom i said no i would rather not let it go out of my
liked it it was so solemn) i got your letter this day with 2 dol dollars i am feeling better to day my
wensday Wednesday morning abt 6 my dear walt i receive d your letter this morning and also got one on
3 Sept '63 My dear Walter i sit down to write you a few lines you have received georges letter before
georgee was sick a nd Andrew had gone and left her without any money i gave her one dollar and one of my
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
about 1 Dec '68 My dear walter Walter i have just got your letter with the order and am much Obliged
pain and nerviousness nervousness i wish i could be with her but it is impossible at present as i have my
M 30 evening My dear Walt all alone i receives your kind letter this morning i was glad to hear from
1869 Feb or March Not March tuesday Tuesday 30 My dear walt Walt i have just received your letter i was
would when he wen t away if he could leave) i am pretty well only last sunday Sunday morning i hurt my
knee i catched caught my foot and struck my knee and it got so lame in the coarse course of the day
soon i have been trying to get things straighened straightened up a little prepa tory to moving when my
knee was so lame i thought what would i if i was so i walk but i can walk quite smart to day if i keep my
30 June 1869 June 30 June 30 My dear walter Walter i will only write a very few lines this time i receeved
the hot weather pretty well it has been very warm indeed here and every where i suppose) i have had my
30 Jan 73 My dear darling walt Walt I have just got your letter i am glad my dear you are as well as
Walter dear remember me to peter write just as you are say you are better than you are god bless you my
3 March tuesday Tuesday noon My dear walt i have just got your letter with 5 dollars and i got the one
—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
will get the money to morrow) i am pretty smart i am troubled at times with a dissiness dizziness in my
get 8 dollar per day but its put the house question down i have got a letter from han i told you in my
box was sent i would let her know so the day before the box went i got lou to write a few lines as 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
our house you must send your love to her also when you write i wish you would write to them this is my
sometimes you are writing at your desk well i am writing this down stairs all alone i have been on my
though maybee maybe i would come but i havent haven't had a word from her since she dident didn't get my
letter) write as often as you can dear and say if you got my letter of Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to
Saturday My dear Walt i have received severall several paper s this week but no letter that has been
of company this week mostly girls from the place where she used to work all have to be taken up in my
got hans Han's letter and Jeffs Jeff's poor matt i feel so bad about her i cant can't keep her out of my
the top whether it was that or what i dont don't know but all that night i couldent couldn't sleep my
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
wensday Wednesday morning My dear Walt i have just got your letter with the shinplasters dident didn't
you get my letter when mary was here saying i got the other there is no letters miscarries that is directed
here i think i have had another attack of the rheumatism but not much in my hands so i can use them
but in my neck and shoulders i had not A very good night last night but am better this morning i am in
here the same morning he returnd returned poor man he said you was very kind to him indeed good bie my
In his April 19, 1863 letter from Winchester, Kentucky, Greenback wrote, "Captain Whitman is ordered
The pseudonym "Greenback" may be a pun: Captain Whitman, the one sending the greenbacks (dollars) to
30 Sept 1869 thursday Thursday afternoon my dear i have to write again you kno w i said in my letter
couldent couldn't get the money i was going yesterday but just as i was going i had quite an increase in my
deliver to her and then he goes on to quote the first part of the letter he says it ran thus) i suppose my
My dear Walter i have received your good letter to day today was glad to hear you had A holiday wish
that time) that is about all i have ventured to go out in a long time i cant can't seem to get over my
lameness my wrist is very little lame but my knees is so weak) i expected mrs maguire here to see something
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
long it treated mostly about a rabbitt rabbit in the wood house i must write to han as soon as i can my
arm keeps lame yet it gets up my arm more i got your letter yesterday walt with the money all safe if
From Burlington 27 Sept. 1865 27 My dear Walt i received your letter Yesterday all right the 26th i dident
edds being there she says he is a very good boy minds every thing she says i hope it will him good my
Launched in 1851, it was piloted by Captain T. D. Chapman.
20 Jan. 1867 sunday Sunday afternoon my dear Walt i must write you a few lines and only a few to let
you know how we are i can hardly write on account of lameness in my right arm down toward my wrist it
redug between this and the great trenches it looks like destruction ) we are all pretty well except my
arm and sis she aint ain't very well she is by my side asleep in the rocking chair its very rare for
Camden Feb. 1873 febuary February 27 My dear walt Walt i have been waiting till this thursday Thursday
27 Feb '67 februy February 27 my dear walt i feel as if i must write a few lines every time i get a letter
write every week but if i dont don't it seems as if i had something to doo do that i had neglected my
midling well sometimes i think im I'm real sick but it goes over i have been troubled with a pain in my
have had a mustard plaister plaster on part of the time i thought it helpt helped me some but i feel my
Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman wrote that Mason "used to be in my party on the Water Works" (see his
about end March 1866 My dear Walt i thought i would write a line as i wanted to send hans letter i was
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
dear walt i got your letter tuesday Tuesday my hand is some better to day lou returned home yesterday
visit has done her good i had a rather hard time of it i was so very lame at times i co u ldent shut my
hand my finger were so swoln swollen but we got along and had pretty good things to eat i cooked with
my left hand and edd helped me if i hadent hadn't been so dreadfull dreadful lame and my hand pained
money up to get it for a long time so she made it out with edds board money it was 46 dollars good bie my
monday Monday evening My dear walt i was sorry my being so late last week with my letter caused you any
uneasiness if any thing was the matter with me more than common you would be advised of it my dear walter
to venture it rained here last night very hard) i am about as usual i have had rather bad pains in my
its fronting the north or south) not one word have i had from Jeff or matt or han or ma ry you are my
Sunday afternoon My dear Walt wasent wasn't it good to get that from george and so lately i began to
read the names in the times to day today but georges was not amongst them they were all officers Captain
the same feelings but i feel better of it it seemed like as if there was A dozen crickets singing in my
bad feelings and i had A bad could cold in my head i could not sleep at nights but i feel better but
money out off the bank there was only 100) 50 dollar it was all right Jeffy see to it i have paid my
William Cook was a Captain in the 19th U.S. Colored Troops.
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
Dec. '67 thursday Thursday 26th My dear Walt i received your letter with the 5 doller dollars all first
Brooklyn 19 Aug 1868 wensday Wednesday evening My dear Walt i recieved received your letter yesterday
(about 20) April 1869 My dear Walt i got you to day today with the enveloves envelopes and money all
much use to get a high salary) walt this is great writin writing but i have had to work so hard that my
in these days they Walt so its best not to make any calcalation calculation good bie walter Walter my
when i get desperate i write commit it to paper as you literary folks say well i am rather better of my
cold but my coughf cough still hangs on it always does when i get a cold it seems as if is should never
have gone up but i have a sore foot that i cant can't wear any but an old sluf shoe i have a bunion on my
it has eased it very much so i gess guess it will be well in a day or two) well walt i will tell how my
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
Brooklyn 25 Nov '68 N ovem 25 My dear Walter i received your letter to day wensday Wednesday and the
She wrote: "I am so anxious about my hand I fear I shall lose my thumb I cant see it gets & feels or
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
not done befor before in years i dont don't think it done me any good one or t w o nights i thought my
lunatic assiliym asylum if he had some light employment but that seems hard to get i could not find it in my
little california is splendid she s fatter than ever i hope these lines will find you well good bie my
tuesday Tuesday evenin evening My dear Walt i received your letter to day with the nice envelopes all
to any place where they live a long time) i am pretty well now i have been trouble d with a pain in my
Walt Whitman had written, "I have not been satisfied with my boarding place—so several weeks ago, I tried
another place & room for a couple of days & nights on trial, without giving up my old room—Well, I was
glad enough to go back to my old place & stay there" (see his August 24, 1868 letter to Louisa Van Velsor
monday Monday afternoon My dear walt Walt as i am here in the sellen salon or dining room as its called
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
1868 tuesday Tuesday 24 march March My dear walter Walter its it's quite a spell since i have written
about the peice piece till i see it and then i had to think where i had heard of it and then it came to my
—1869 Septr September 23 My dear walt Walt i suppose you have arrived safe to your place of business
Monday My dear walt i got your letter on saturday Saturday and got those you sent through the week i
better now Jeff left the pills and i think i will take some to night to see if it wont won't break up my
Judith and i get all the papers you send and all the money and it comes very good sometimes i tell you my
dear Walt worry walt about my trouble with nance and georgey it did make me feel bad and sorry for her
this one and what with Plumbers, Carpenters, Chimney-sweeps, painters, and house cleaners I have had my
My dear Walt i received your letter yesterday we got the papers you send walter Walter dear i am glad
| May 1870 march March 23 My dear walt Walt i have just got your letter with the money in it i received
asks how is and they would like to have you come on there well i dare say they would well i said in 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
Brooklyn–25 Feb 1868 to attorney general's office wash. my dear Walter i got your letter all safe to
next week) George had to make a paym ent the other day and had to take all he had to make it out) give my
22 Oct. 1867 22 October Well Walter my dear i have just received your welcome letter with the 10 dollers
says if this medicine dont don't help me he know as any thing will sometimes i think it will help me my
Y., on a visit to my mother."