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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
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
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
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
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
Mason who "used to be in my party on the Water Works" in his February 10, 1863 to Walt Whitman.
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
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
1870 July 20 My dear Walt i got your letter yesterday but the paper you spoke of i havent haven't received
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
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
very lame indeed i take the sleeping drought only once in a great while when i have extreme pains in my
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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."
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
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."
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
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
asks how is and they would like to have you come on there well i dare say they would well i said in my
| May 1870 march March 23 My dear walt Walt i have just got your letter with the money in it i received
My dear Walt i received your letter yesterday we got the papers you send walter Walter dear i am glad
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
—1869 Septr September 23 My dear walt Walt i suppose you have arrived safe to your place of business
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
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
monday Monday afternoon My dear walt Walt as i am here in the sellen salon or dining room as its called
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
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
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
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
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
(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
Brooklyn 19 Aug 1868 wensday Wednesday evening My dear Walt i recieved received your letter yesterday
Dec. '67 thursday Thursday 26th My dear Walt i received your letter with the 5 doller dollars all first
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
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
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
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
about end March 1866 My dear Walt i thought i would write a line as i wanted to send hans letter i was
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
Camden Feb. 1873 febuary February 27 My dear walt Walt i have been waiting till this thursday Thursday
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
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.
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