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spell)" (Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 2:
Let me know Walt how it looks to you please—All the lower part is to be of granite—and above that brick
Standpipe No. 2, the "Red Tower" at Blair and Bissell streets, was authorized by the city council on
See the letter from Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman of April 2, 1863.
1874 (Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961-77], 2:
all sorts of newspaper rumors in regard to the yellow fever in St Louis —but the truth is that the stories
reasonably well have pretty good health—indeed just now it is extremely good—at one time—near the latter part
I may likely come East this fall or latter part of the summer to see about getting the money to start
letters (Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961-77], 2:
&c" (Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961-77], 2:
(see Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961-77], 2:
brother" (Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961-77], 2:
The Mr Brown who has rented the lower part of the house has sent a number of things to the house, carpets
$11. 10 from Hill & Newman and $1. from Henry Carlow On Tuesday I again wrote you, sending you $4…$2
Drake and 2 from "Cash" through John D. Martin The enclosed $5 is from our friend Mr. E. Rae.
I am having a plan for a small 2 Story house (22 x 32) made and shall try to get Rae to build it for
Mother had a letter from Han on Saturday she seemed about the same although Heyde wrote in the latter part
Drake $2. " Cash " through John D Martin $4 both of whom are employed on the work under Mr Lane.
He can hardly walk alone He has been home about 2 weeks and has got so he can just get about a little
Mother has taken the house and rented the lower part to a Mr "John Brown" @ $14 per month Mat and I keeping
He plays the same parts that Amodio used to but possesses the (to me) most wonderful voice, with the
Putnam's Sons, 1920), 2:46–50.
This letter is written on the verso of George's letter of April 2, 1863 .
Putnam's Sons, 1920), 2:46–50.
Waldron, ed., Mattie: The Letters of Martha Mitchell Whitman [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 2)
See Jeff's letter to Walt dated April 2, 1863.
Similarly, Lane sent dollar contributions from six individuals on May 2, 1863.
Yesterday Mother locked the front basement door while she went to some other part of the house a moment—to
Katherine Molinoff, Some Notes on Whitman's Family, Monographs on Unpublished Whitman Material, no. 2
Presumably two volumes of the Pacific Railroad reports (see Jeff's letter to Walt from April 2, 1863)
Similarly, Lane sent dollar contributions from six individuals on May 2, 1863.
Johnson, 2nd ed., 2 vols (Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1858–59).
See Jeff's letter to Walt dated April 2, 1863.
Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 2 May 1863
Hart was granted several leaves of absence from March 2, 1863, through June 1863.
He says that she must fix up her third story room for Han an him and a lot of stuff.
Yesterday she had an immensely bad fall on the back part of her head.
and reached over to get a small piece of stuff to stitch, leaned too far and fell striking the back part
will write you again to-morrow Yours Affectionately, Jeff Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 2
Jeff and Walt did not correspond in November 1863 because the poet was home for a visit from November 2
Katherine Molinoff, Some Notes on Whitman's Family, Monographs on Unpublished Whitman Material, no. 2
go out and get rooms and remove Mat and the babies away—but Mother said that it would kill her to part
I wish to God he was ready to put along side of Andrew There would be but few tears shed on my part
I shall probably be kept here all this week and possibly part of next About the Eagle that had the little
—In the early part of this month Mr Kirkwood sent me $5 to send you but I have been pretty hard up and
See Thomas Jefferson Whitman's letter to Walt Whitman from April 2, 1863.
over Browers (cor of Cumberland st. and Myrtle) they ask $350 for one floor and 275 for the third story
—There is a story around that Travis bought the house we live in for $3000, but I can hardly think of
Ruggles, see the letter from Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman of April 2, 1863.
I suppose their is at least 30 000 men nibbling around in Kansas and other parts west.
Her hair is getting lighter and i guess will be about the color of mine The enclosed $2 is sent $1 by
One might assume, then, that both letters were written on Wednesday, September 2, if it were not for
See Thomas Jefferson Whitman's letter to Walt Whitman from April 2, 1863.
One might assume, then, that both letters were written on Wednesday, September 2, if it were not for
I think that rioting in these parts has received its quietus mostly from that Reg of Michigan boys that
the thing out complete, get the men in the field and every thing done before drafting in any other part
enforce it in the next, so that in a short time a majority of the city would want it enforced in the parts
Such harrowing stories must have moved the Whitmans to despair of recovering George.At the same time,
house—he did not say how much more I told Mat and Mother that we would tell him to set the price on the part
See Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence (New York: New York University Press, 1961-77), 2:
coming out and staying the winter with us—did you know how easy the travel is you would not mind that part
In what may have been a related action, a new independent water board was created on April 2, 1869, which
See Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1867.
by-gone life The talk of the crowd was that they had been driven in by the Indians—but I doubt that part
of the story— There is a report in town to-day that some of the "bloody injuns" were stealing cows &
good by for the present write me as often as you can Jeff Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 2
Louis and temporarily encamped near the Bissell's Point works (Missouri Republican, August 2 and 3, 1867
Pittsburgh, [January 17, 1868] Friday Night Dear Mother, We all arrived safely at Pittsburgh abt 2 oclk
McNamee, Brower, Story, Bergen, Ward, Lewis, Clapp and Van Buren (all young men employed in our office
) each $2.
Story, a surveyor.
cool—but nevertheless vegetation is getting forward fast—and just out side the city—where we are to build part
1868 (Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961-77],2:
ed., Mattie: The Letters of Martha Mitchell Whitman (New York: New York University Press, 1977), pp. 2-
Edward Ruggles (see Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 2 April 1863) had died the previous year
Walt Whitman wrote two articles about New Orleans which appeared in the April 2 and May 21, 1848, issues
that she need not do another thing in the way of work, except for her amusement besides I would pay part
—Cases of Brooklyn Men" (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 19, 1863: 2).
One of the children, Kate Lane, is the daughter of Moses E. Lane.
Moses Lane sent Whitman $15.20, including five cents from Willie Durkee and fifteen cents from Miss Kate
salutary" (Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 2:
1868 (Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961-77], 2:
found the water slowly falling and I hope in a few days—by Sunday next—to commence again—this is the part
For a discussion of George's difficulties in building this three-story house for his mother and brother
Hooker did not win a very great victory either or he would hardly lie idle so long during the best part
with her now I know Andrew has not yet gone to Newbern but thinks that they will get off the fore part