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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.
15 March 67 M 15 my dear walter i just write a line to you this friday Friday morning before breakfast
begins to look quite old jeff is to let him have 200 dollars he is in hopes of selling one to a sea captain
matty still has company mrs mason i felt walt as if i must write a line or two i am still troubled with my
wrist and my thumb it pains me some but i feel thankful i can dress myself and around Walt think you
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
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."
Oct 17th My dear Walt 1867 the post man has gone bye by and no letters, and its being thursday Thursday
i feel worried very much for fear it is gone as i dident didn't get it yesterday my usuall usual day
letter is gone i have been waching the letter man and he s he's past and no letter i feel real bad my
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
1867 August 1 my dear Walt i will try once more to write A line to say we are all about the same only
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
13 April 1867 April 13th My dear Walt it is saturday Saturday afternoon and martha is gone away and hattie
the bustle I have lived in the country so long it seemed quite strange i suppose Walt you have got my
waiting to take the letter i am about the same some days i feel very well then again i feel quite spry my
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
Mason who "used to be in my party on the Water Works" in his February 10, 1863 to Walt Whitman.
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
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
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
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."
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
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
Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American
the top whether it was that or what i dont don't know but all that night i couldent couldn't sleep 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 Walt you think strange of my not writing befor e and it is strange i have not but i have wrote
laid out in A black frock coat of Georges and vest and shirt looked as if he was asleep i never in all my
have him buried in greenwood i paid little attention to her fault finding but done what i thought was my
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
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
with George Washington Whitman in the Fifty-first New York Volunteers, and he rose to the rank of captain
Mason who "used to be in my party on the Water Works" in his February 10, 1863 to Walt Whitman.
—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
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
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.
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
better dont come till you can walk good and without injury to your getting fully recovered good bie my
tuesday Tuesday afternoon My dear Walter i have got the letter and two dollars all right the messenger
time she is quite miserable but goes around as usual she often wishes to be remembered to you she got my
novem November 16 My dear Walt i have got your letter this morning and likewise one from george he dident
My dear Walt i received your letter and money and the chigacago Chicago news all safe and sound on tuesday
pit to see to the cementing and he gets all mud sometimes and he favor himself much) well walter dear my
i hadent hadn't much to write about this time so i wouldent wouldn't take a whole sheet i get over my
letters for 10 years) he said to day today their is lots of theiving thieving somewhere he said if my
Louis had sent a money order he would have got it for me with my signing my name i am very sorry i dident
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
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
My dear walt i have just got your two letters this monday Monday morning one was written last thursday
impose on good nature but walt if you could send me the order the first of next week i would be glad as my
will get a nice black silk) i gess guess mrs price is like many others short of funds sometime walter my
M 30 evening My dear Walt all alone i receives your kind letter this morning i was glad to hear from
Oct October 5 my dear walt i send you the receipt for the money george has sent you by addams s express
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
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
farewell my beloved sons farewell i have lived beyond all comfort in this world dont mourn for me my
beloved sons and daughters farewel my dear beloved walter Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman,
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
: weather— Bad condition with me—"Keep good heart— the worst is to come "—was one of the sayings of my
published in the magazine: "Twilight" (December 1887), "Old Age's Lamben Peaks" (September 1888), "My
If I am so fortunate as to regain my health I hope to weaken the force of that statement, at least in
sofar as my talent & training will permit.
My artistic enthusiasm was never so thoroughly stirred up as by the indians They certainly have more
Whitman: I have been very much interested in your hospital work, of which I have heard through my brother
My husband ("J.C.T.
but I am surprised to see that in Lippincott's (foot-note to p 381) you quote, instead of this, from my
Harrison's letters and have been comforting my soul with the idea that you prized the one I refer to,
fanciful imagination, whistled merrily, or moaned sadly, according to my thoughts.
emboldens me to ask whether my husband and I may not call upon you some day at your convenience.
Trautwine's note" in revising the Lippincott's piece for publication in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891): see
(1871 Leaves).In the opening line of the poem Whitman asks for "something specific and perfect for my
its want of courage Will you write on the enclosed sheet of paper a few words that I shall treasure—my
Sir, Having added the Editorship of this Magazine to my duties on the Pall Mall Gazette my thoughts at