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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
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
deliver to her and then he goes on to quote the first part of the letter he says it ran thus) i suppose my
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
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
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
the top whether it was that or what i dont don't know but all that night i couldent couldn't sleep my
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
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
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
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
—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
3 March tuesday Tuesday noon My dear walt i have just got your letter with 5 dollars and i got the one
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
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
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
M 30 evening My dear Walt all alone i receives your kind letter this morning i was glad to hear from
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
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
wensday Wednesday morning abt 6 my dear walt i receive d your letter this morning and also got one on
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
children is extremely well mat has has very much to doo do she is going to have a girl to work give my
Walter it is so strange you hav e not got my letter I sent one last friday Friday morning and should
and have had all you have sent and come very acceptable I had got down to 10 cents you must have got my
told him I had hired so much of the house out he would have to hire his board write Walt if you got my
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
knew all about his arrival at Anapolis Annapolis i saw his name in the times with 500 others arrived) my
brother George Washington Whitman had been exchanged, at least as of his February 27, 1865 letter to Captain
inauguration day maybee it dont don't storm in washington Washington though) i am pretty well except a pain in my
1873 march March 4 5 oclock o'clock dear walt Walt i suppose you have got my letter i wrote last saturday
and mrs Mrs. buckly be a kind of mother to me and little poor hattie Hattie it made the tears come in my
hot weather i think it would us both good so we must both get so we can walk without limping good bie my
says he had telegraph to you i wish i could know the thruth truth about her) it made me feel bad with my
5 Dec. 18 '63 1 friday Friday night My dear Walt i write to night some of the particulars of Andrews
that came to watch he told mary he was dying and he could not dye die with them there they insisted on my
11 Nov. '68 wensday Wednesday my dear Walter i received your letter yesterday it is the first i believe
the 6 oclock o'clock train georgy Georgey dident didn't want to go much i dont don't think it was on my
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
Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American
Brooklyn May th 5 1868 My dear Walt it seemed quite a treat to get your letter you are the only correspondente
to look at any more houses but was going to wait for something to turn up i am quite lame in one of my
Oct October 5 my dear walt i send you the receipt for the money george has sent you by addams s express
was a gentleman in the cars that said he would see to getting me a carriage i was just giving the man my
check for my valice valise i thought i would take that with me when Charley came up so i got along very
Dear Walter i write quite often d nt don't i you cant can't complain of my not writing i thought i would
wouldent wouldn't know what to doo do but i got the same old retort that it was me that was stingy with my
common thing to hear if i make any remark that i would like to have any thing why dont i get it with my
and think they expect too much from me i feel pretty well since the weather is cool but i am lame in my
write on a piece of paper loo se from the letter if you say any thing you nt want all to read you got my
Louisa Van Velsor Whitman struck through the phrase "money in the" after the word "my."
am not feeling very well walter Walter dear i am very nervious nervous and have such a trembling in my
whole system my appetite is very poor dont don't know what ails me i feel bad maybee maybe nothing Lou
sending the $5 is not extant, in his April 30, 1873 letter he had promised to enclose the money in "my
the shortness of this letter, the deficiency of her handwriting, and her report of "a trembling in my
Whitman in his April 30, 1873 letter to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman promised to send "the other 5 in my
My dear walt Walt i received your letter to day its a great consolation to get your letters nearly all
the comfort i have) as i have no one to talk too to about any of my own i get letters from helen price
without hearing mine they think Lou is in the family way and therefore she has to be kept up stairs in my
since i got up this morning till i come up to writ write this letter i have had very little good of my
tuesday Tuesday My dear Walt i received your letter on monday Monday glad to hear you get along so well
weather its it's hot to be shure sure but no use fretting about it well Walt i have been to day and had my
and one for myself i shall send han one in the package so you see walt Walt i bequeath something to my
will get a nice black silk) i gess guess mrs price is like many others short of funds sometime walter my
6 March 1868 friday Friday the 6 My dear Walt i thought i would write again this week to tell you i had
coal but it held out till after the storm got a little settled and i got some) with the 5 that came in my
do he will stay till mr Lane sends an inspector out and then he is to inspect the new main he paid my
My dear darling walter Walter i got your letter yesterday and saturday Saturday i am midling middling
to day have been not very well my head has been quite bad but i hope to get better dear i am glad you
are better dont don't send any more papers as i cant can't read my head gets confused) i know its it's
my nerves has got bad but i hope to get better of it in time good bie my dear blessed son An image of
Louisa described the later episode, probably a stroke, the following week: "my head and my very brain
Brooklyn 27 April 1867 saturday Saturday 2 oclock o'clock my dear Walt i have just receeved received
your letter with 1 dollar in it the rain perhaps deterd deterred my getting it earlyer earlier but i
lik like a foun tain so yesterday they stopped it george was mud from head to foot) walter dea r give my
impeachment of Johnson '68 april April 7 My dear walt Walt we are having an awful rain storm and george
i feel better to day than i have for some time i have been troubled with the dissiness dizziness in my
George said he dident didn't think lane expected it but i suppose he wanted to be ready i am better of my
lameness but not entirely over it my knee is so weak but i think it will get better after a while it
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
December 7 My dear Walt i got your letter yesterday morning it come real quick i was quite astonished
his health had improved: "it is very healthy here this summer—I havn't been troubled by the heat yet—my
he has gone home to day today Buffalow Buffalo he is very much attached to George he said when the Captain
Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American
Sims, a captain in George Washington Whitman's Fifty-first New York Volunteers, had been the subject
out, George only suffered a minor injury: "I have come out safe and sound, although I had the side of my
jaw slightly scraped with a peice of shell which burst at my feet" (see George's December 16, 1862 letter
My dear dear Walt i sat down and let every thing go to write this it seems so long since i have written
married is certainly the last one you would think as he always was set in his way) but as you say by my
30 Sept 1871 Saturday morning My dear walt Walt i thought i must send you a line to tell you i have got
8 April 1873 My dear walt Walt i got your letter of sunday Sunday and monday Monday and the papers all
fereplaces fireplaces and its much cheaper to have stove pipes than firplac es what do you think of my
For the poem that he enclosed, see "Sea Captains, Young or Old," published in the April 4, 1873 issue
confined comments on his condition to two brief remarks, that he did "not feel very well" and that "My