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very much indeed i wrote to her that i dident didn't know how to undertake the journeey journey in my
that it is "as much as Han can do to take care of herself" and that he had "paid off the mortgage on my
judson Judson came with her poor woman i felt great sympathy for her if i had had 5 doller dollars in my
paper concerning you and they thought so strange they hear from you i feel pretty smart only quite lame my
Louisa Van Velsor Whitman originally wrote, "my sympathy for her strong."
She then canceled the word "my" and the phrase "for her strong."
She inserted "i felt great" above the canceled word "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
wonder how she is i think so much about her some nights i cant sleep if she wou ld only write to me) my
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
21 March 1873 M 21 My dear darling walt Walt i receeved received your letter yesterday likewise the gra
mention her name matti Matty was a kind daughter to me i have cause to regret her death) good bie give my
was a little frightened at first seeing your writing dident didn't look at first at the burlington my
but but all well she says she calafornia when uncle comes home well walt i cant can't write much more my
warmer it will get better George has just been up and tells me they have sold one of the houses to the captain
he was captain of the contest taken by the alabamans in the war times) this peice piece was cut out
Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman wrote that Mason "used to be in my party on the Water Works" (see his
The name of the "captain" and the "contest taken by the alabamans" are unclear.
If a ship captain, it cannot be Homer C.
Blake, the captain of the USS Hatteras, the only Union warship taken by the CSS Alabama, because Blake
Or this captain may have been associated with a Union defeat in the land war.
21 Feb '67 21 of febuary February My dear Walter here we are with another awfull awful snow storm it
should go but i would have had a pretty hard time with dooing doing the work and davis to cook for with my
coal but i let every thing slide along but i think matty gets better) but we get along pretty well my
Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman wrote that Mason "used to be in my party on the Water Works" (see his
feel disposed o i think sometimes if i could see matty Matty once more as i used to and tell her all my
ups and downs what a comfort it would be to me i never had any one even my own daughters i could tell
peece piece of paper as the letter man brings the letters but doo do write as often as you can give my
–1873), known as "Captain Jack."
21 April 1873 monday Monday My ever dear walt Walt i thought i would write to you to day as i dident
the best and the largest sometime i feel bad enoughf enough if i was younger i should show some of my
getting along if you think you cant can't get a house for us to live in worry about me i shall live my
words "dignity" and "now" Louisa Van Velsor Whitman canceled the phrase "it would bee all good to have my
very lame indeed i take the sleeping drought only once in a great while when i have extreme pains in my
is sunday Sunday and no word nor letter have i got yet i am very confidant confident you have sent my
would hardly stop long enoughf enough for me to say any thing to him) all he said its it's none of my
fault none of my fault in A quick way and hurried on you have undoubtably undoubtedly got the letter
would get one or two common gowns sh e would stich stitch them for me and i was going to get one out of my
20 June 1867 thursday Thursday 10 oclock o'clock My dear Walt i received your letter yesterday with the
in all of Whitman's poetry, from the second stanza of Leaves of Grass (1855), "I lean and loafe at my
1870 July 20 My dear Walt i got your letter yesterday but the paper you spoke of i havent haven't received
she died before his return he thought you had forgotten him or you would have sent him a few lines my
his April 16, 1860 letter to Walt Whitman requested a copy of James Redpath's The Public Life of Captain
Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman had requested a copy of James Redpath's The Public Life of Captain John
Monday 1868 November 2 My dear Walter i have got your letter to day with the money order i have been
honorable Mr Heyde well we wont won't say any thing of the bad but tell of the good he says han received my
and it does real good and the coal burns very good so you see dear i have a warm room and money in my
Mason who "used to be in my party on the Water Works" in his February 10, 1863 to Walt Whitman.
1870 Janry January 19 My dear walt Walt i am like you this week i dont don't seem to have any thing new
worst of it was they had two dogs and before they could get them away i thought they would have torn my
a stir about the small pox ordering every one to be vasinated vaccinated ) well walter Walter dear my
19 Oct 1869 tuesday Tuesday October 19 my dear Walter i receeved received your letter to day with the
magazine now adays but like to read it particularly at present for i have had such a sore thumb on my
visit that i particularly wanted her to come and that she must write to me as soon as she received my
ever had such a bad coughf cough before i know how i should have got the meals if he had been home my
is somewhat better to day i have had mustard plasters acrost across my chest and i think it has done
me good i feel the soreness of the mustard but the soreness and distress in my side is much better)
last winter for all it was so very cold on the park i had to cover up my head to keep my ears from freezing
old days if i had none i believe i cant can't wr ite any more to night good bie walter dear my love
3 april 1871 sunday Sunday My dear walt Walt i write a few lines this beautifull beautiful morning to
month or so) you will come home before long wont won't you walter Walter dear i wish you would send my
you may think he is not very well i am sorry walt your head is no better how bad it must b e good by my
Tuesday with the money all safe am Obliged to you for it i thought perhaps the snow storm would prevent my
very kind if she ever comes to new york New York i hope she will come and see me and stay awhile give my
indignant indeed i felt anxious to get them and went out one of those slushey slushy days dident didn't get my
feet wet but got them very damp and cold and i got such a very bad cold and pain in my face i was real
sick two or three days i coulden t couldn't sleep for the pain in my face saturday Saturday night in
Feb 1868 wensday Wednesday 19 My dear Walter i thought i would just write a few lines and send you marys
wait till next week i dident didn't hardly know how to spare the envelope i have been looking over my
stock and i find i have got three more i suppose you have got my letter to day in answer to yours of
Brooklyn 18 Nov. 68 My dear Walter I got your letter monday Monday with the contents all safe I should
coming poor jeff Jeff I feel sorry for him and sorry for matty Matty and sorry for myself – I have my
thursday Thursday afternoon My dear Walt my letter is rather late this week i waited thinking i should
thought to be good for the neuralghy neuralgia and rheumatism i got a 50 cent bottle and am rubbing my
wish you had some) the folks here goes on just the same seem to mind the loss of their father much my
about aug. 1870 My dear walt Walt i received your letter yesterday i was very anxious to hear from you
My dear walt Walt its another monday Monday morning and edd Edd and me is alone george George has gone
i have been better of the rheumatism this winter untill until a week or so ago i got quite lame in my
knees so i could hardly get down stairs but i think i took cold going out to the privy getting my feet
hardly realize she is gone as her picture hangs here and looks so much like life it brings the tears to my
farewell my beloved sons farewell i have lived beyond all comfort in this world dont mourn for me my
beloved sons and daughters farewel my dear beloved walter Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman,
Oct 17th My dear Walt 1867 the post man has gone bye by and no letters, and its being thursday Thursday
i feel worried very much for fear it is gone as i dident didn't get it yesterday my usuall usual day
letter is gone i have been waching the letter man and he s he's past and no letter i feel real bad my
18 Jan 66 thursday Thursday januar January 17th My dear walt we are all as well as usual and have got
the smoke that helps her very quik quick off those bad spels spells good bie walter dear Jeffy makes my
My dear Walt you think strange of my not writing befor e and it is strange i have not but i have wrote
laid out in A black frock coat of Georges and vest and shirt looked as if he was asleep i never in all my
have him buried in greenwood i paid little attention to her fault finding but done what i thought was my
Brooklyn 10 Oct 1866 My dear Walter i got you letter to day wensday Wednesday with the money all safe
like an age since i had seen you i am glad you are better situated than you was i am about the same of my
yesterday and to day today i feel better and not so weak and exausted exhausted like i did feel i have my
bed out in the room and sleep better and my appetite is better sis has been quite sick so marthe had
novem November 16 My dear Walt i have got your letter this morning and likewise one from george he dident
better dont come till you can walk good and without injury to your getting fully recovered good bie my
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
he saw a carrier in Bedford aven Avenue so i thought you was worse and the thoughts that run through my
with symptoms that Walt had listed in an early February letter: he had described a "severe cold in my
Earlier in the month, Walt Whitman reported a "severe cold in my head" and "bad spells, dizziness" (see
My dear walt i have just got your two letters this monday Monday morning one was written last thursday
impose on good nature but walt if you could send me the order the first of next week i would be glad as my
My dear Walt although i have had a pretty hard day yet i felt as if i wanted to write a line before i
doctors on tuesday Tuesday all right Dr enos is dead i suppose you s ee in the papers very suddenly my
tuesday Tuesday afternoon My dear Walter i have got the letter and two dollars all right the messenger
time she is quite miserable but goes around as usual she often wishes to be remembered to you she got my
15 March 1869 My dear Walt dont don't be frightened at getting this unseasonable letter there is nothing
well as usual i hope this will find you over your trouble with the distress in your head) the cause of my
while) says this building without money is a bad business i suppose walter Walter dea dear you got my
In his February 2–8, 1869 letter to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, Walt Whitman wrote of "severe cold in my
15 March 67 M 15 my dear walter i just write a line to you this friday Friday morning before breakfast
begins to look quite old jeff is to let him have 200 dollars he is in hopes of selling one to a sea captain
matty still has company mrs mason i felt walt as if i must write a line or two i am still troubled with my
wrist and my thumb it pains me some but i feel thankful i can dress myself and around Walt think you
more she is such a mischieveous girl i get up very early and that seems to be the only time i can get my
st Warren St. i think they will make a great deal out of the job in new york New York but it is only my
get it every saturday Saturday ) you must tell me when you write how many valentines you got good by my
1865 November 14 tuesday Tuesday noon Nv Nov 14 My dear Walt i have waited and waited to hear from you
Brooklyn 14 April 1869 wensday Wednesday 14 My dear Walt your letter has come to day all right i looked
was to send a draft to George the first of the month for two hundred dollars but it has not come to my
down to the post office and got the money and i have got lots of things for myself i thought now was my
My dear Walt i received your letter and money and the chigacago Chicago news all safe and sound on tuesday
pit to see to the cementing and he gets all mud sometimes and he favor himself much) well walter dear my
i hadent hadn't much to write about this time so i wouldent wouldn't take a whole sheet i get over my
letters for 10 years) he said to day today their is lots of theiving thieving somewhere he said if my
Louis had sent a money order he would have got it for me with my signing my name i am very sorry i dident
my dearly beloved walter Walter thank god i feel better this morning i hope i shall be better now my
rheumatism is better in my limbs whether its that or what has affected my head i cannot tell but my head
and my very brain has seemed to be affected but i feel better this morning and hope i shall be better
enough to see to things eddy Eddy is very good boy lately he says he hopes i wont won't die good bie my
Walt's mother had described "a trembling in my whole system" in her May 5–6 letter, and he was alarmed
Louisa Van Velsor Whitman at the onset of this event, presumably a stroke, described "trembling in my
My dear beloved son dont don't be worried about me i hope i shall be all right again my nervious nervous
very much out of order i know i have brought in on by worrying but i cant can't seem to get over it my
head feels bad sometimes my rheumatics is better if i could be with you dear walt Walt i would be glad
wish but i hope i shall get a better appetite some time as i have such trembling spels spells its all my
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
13 April 1867 April 13th My dear Walt it is saturday Saturday afternoon and martha is gone away and hattie
the bustle I have lived in the country so long it seemed quite strange i suppose Walt you have got my
waiting to take the letter i am about the same some days i feel very well then again i feel quite spry my