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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 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
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
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
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
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
6 9 june 8 My dear walt i got your letter and you may expect i was glad enoughf enough to hear you was
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
wensday Wednesday morning abt 6 my dear walt i receive d your letter this morning and also got one on
inauguration day maybee it dont don't storm in washington Washington though) i am pretty well except a pain in my
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
December 7 My dear Walt i got your letter yesterday morning it come real quick i was quite astonished
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
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
about aug. 1870 My dear walt Walt i received your letter yesterday i was very anxious to hear from you
1870 July 20 My dear Walt i got your letter yesterday but the paper you spoke of i havent haven't received
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
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
deliver to her and then he goes on to quote the first part of the letter he says it ran thus) i suppose 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
| May 1870 march March 23 My dear walt Walt i have just got your letter with the money in it i received
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
asks how is and they would like to have you come on there well i dare say they would well i said 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
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
—1869 Septr September 23 My dear walt Walt i suppose you have arrived safe to your place of business
his health had improved: "it is very healthy here this summer—I havn't been troubled by the heat yet—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
children is extremely well mat has has very much to doo do she is going to have a girl to work give my
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
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
1865 November 14 tuesday Tuesday noon Nv Nov 14 My dear Walt i have waited and waited to hear from you
you will send me ten dolls dollars not all at one time but if you can send me 5 at the next writing my
about end March 1866 My dear Walt i thought i would write a line as i wanted to send hans letter i was
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
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
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