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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
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
11 Nov. 1868 My dear Walter i got both of your letters one the last of last week and the other on monday
says he had telegraph to you i wish i could know the thruth truth about her) it made me feel bad with 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
1868 march 11 evening My dear Walt i have nothing to write this week i have got all out of news) but
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
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
Brooklyn 19 Aug 1868 wensday Wednesday evening My dear Walt i recieved received your letter yesterday
—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
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
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
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
Brooklyn 8 July 1868 July th 8th My dear Walt i have received your letter to day wensday Wednesday dident
any change in your place but we must take things as they come no more this time walter Walter dear) my
hand is letter lame that the letter is wrote quite bad give my love to an mrs Mrs. oconor O'Connor and
Walt Whitman was proud of Dutch ancestry on his mother's side: "I may say I revel, even gloat, over 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
Dec. '67 thursday Thursday 26th My dear Walt i received your letter with the 5 doller dollars all first
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it 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
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
went up stairs and went to bed and said nothing g ot up in the morning and was busy fixing the fire in my
write doo how you are i hope you wont won't get s ick i feel quite well since i have got better of my
1863 letter to Jeff Whitman reported a "bad humming feeling and deafness, stupor-like at times, in my
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
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
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
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
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
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
monday Monday afternoon My dear walt Walt as i am here in the sellen salon or dining room as its called
28 Feb. 1873 Saturday noon My dear dear walt Walt i have just got your letter the money came all safe
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
My dear Walt i received your letter yesterday we got the papers you send walter Walter dear i am glad
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
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."
30 Sept 1871 Saturday morning My dear walt Walt i thought i must send you a line to tell you i have got
very lame indeed i take the sleeping drought only once in a great while when i have extreme pains 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
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
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
Camden Feb. 1873 febuary February 27 My dear walt Walt i have been waiting till this thursday Thursday
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
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
difference but i doo do feel sometimes if i could have something except the regular fare i should like it as 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."
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
1871 febuary February 9 My dear walt Walt i write a few lines to say i received your letter yesterday
Hudson River horror is awful in the extreme it is enoughf enough to make one shudder) i am better of my
cold but are quite lame it seems as if the pain and lameness is all settled in my left knee i can walk
but yesterday i was quite bad but i think it will be better in a day or two i have had a weakness in my
right hand and wrist you can see by my writing it looks some like yours when your thumb was so bad how
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
1873 12th of January My dear walt Walt it seems like an age till i got your letter to day i was glad
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
get it every saturday Saturday ) you must tell me when you write how many valentines you got 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