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Room 56 Borden Block, Chicago, Feby 3d 188 7 My dear and honoured Walt Whitman:— It is less than a year
I was attracted by the curious title "Leaves of Grass", opened the book at random, and my eyes met the
In the "Spring Song" and the "Song of the Depths" my orbit responded to the new attracting sun.
Imagine that I have expressed to you my sincere conviction of what I owe.
The essay is my "first effort," at the age of 30.
Dear Sir:— I would be highly pleased to receive your autograph to place in my collection, and hope you
was sick, and when I was taken sick, she very kindly stayed with us, and has taken all the care off my
I found your letter and Mrs Gilchrists and Mr Carpenters on my return, and we were much alarmed at first
I can hardly tell about my trip, but when you return, it will be as well, and you have passed over so
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
All my sceptical rejection of creeds and dogmas is giving place to a sense of the eternal fitness of
In my blind unreasoning egotism I mistook the shadow for the substance, and thought that "religion" was
Forgive my illogical desultory manner of writing. I think you will understand all I would convey.
not, but if not, it is to be hoped you will now seek that Saviour who stands waiting to receive you— "My
1867 August 1 my dear Walt i will try once more to write A line to say we are all about the same only
—1868 July 1 My dear Walt i got your letter yesterday and the money order and magazine and two papers
well if not better than i was last summer i dont don't take any kind of medicine now only bath bathe 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
28 Feb. 1873 Saturday noon My dear dear walt Walt i have just got your letter the money came all safe
difference but i doo do feel sometimes if i could have something except the regular fare i should like it as my
you will send me ten dolls dollars not all at one time but if you can send me 5 at the next writing my
Tuesday 1868 November 10 My dear Walter i have received your letter to day although it was short it was
suffered very much so pressed for breath poor little boy it made me feel real sad he and Janey was up in my
10 Oct '71 tuesday Tuesday morning O c 10 My dear walt Walt i had company yesterday so i dident didn't
daughters has their own to attend to which is perfectly natural) george George and loo and Jeff insists on my
but houseroo m at any rate i shant shan't break up as long as i can get around if i lo s e the use of my
suppose they do it for the best they think i live so lonesome) but worry about me breaking up i have had my
12 April 1873 My dear walt Walt i have just receeved received your letter this stormy morning with the
sombody somebody to talk a little with i should feel releeved relieved so i have to bother you with my
wensday Wednesday afternoon my dear walt i have got your letter with the 5 dollars and am oblige obliged
with much pleasure i make no doubt as the evening is so tedious as i cant can't work much if i doo do my
1868 march 11 evening My dear Walt i have nothing to write this week i have got all out of news) but
11 Nov. 1868 My dear Walter i got both of your letters one the last of last week and the other on monday
well my dear walt Walt how are you this morning i would very much like to come in and see you and get
Jeff on February 8, 1873 that he was unable "to move from one room to the other" and so "can but send my
1873 12th of January My dear walt Walt it seems like an age till i got your letter to day i was glad
evening and he and Baynton his partner in Jersey is to come here this afternoon that is the cause of my
but there is so many things to be considered) i sent and got the sun Sun to see how the election went my
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
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
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
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
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
1865 November 14 tuesday Tuesday noon Nv Nov 14 My dear Walt i have waited and waited to hear from you
get it every saturday Saturday ) you must tell me when you write how many valentines you got good by my
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
better dont come till you can walk good and without injury to your getting fully recovered good bie my
novem November 16 My dear Walt i have got your letter this morning and likewise one from george he dident
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
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
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
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
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,
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
about aug. 1870 My dear walt Walt i received your letter yesterday i was very anxious to hear from you
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
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
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
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