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My dear Walt The enclosed will interest you—From all accounts the reception of book here is very satisfactory
We are here for my wifes health, which I am glad to say is much improved. Ever yours T. W.
1882 June 10th 29 Lange Strasse Dresden My dear Whitman I learn to day to my great surprise that the
This will perhaps lead to my finding a collaborateur for the translation—said translation owing to press
of other business has not been very rigorously pursued lately, but after this month I shall take off my
Yet then, and always, that was the cause that had my affection & interest—only I saw such obstacles in
Now all that has changed itself in my mind.
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
acknowledges Whitman's influence in the following statements: "I find it difficult to imagine what my
'Leaves of Grass' 'filtered and filtered' my blood; but I do not think I ever tried to imitate it or
Respected Sir, My object in writing to you is simply to request that you would favor me with your autograph
My dear Sir : I should like, if I can do so without impertinence, to send you my grateful thanks for
You have, through them, infused into my life and into the lives of many others, a fresher, healthier
I send you a paper which I read in October last in Warrington, Lancashire, and let my sincerity and enthusiasm
be my excuse for the utter inadequacy of treatment of a subject I both love and revere.
I remain, my dear sir, with grateful thanks, Thomas Tylston Greg.
It is [my] sincere wish that Johny Makey will survive the operation and ultimately recover.
Yes my dear Brother, You have my friendship as fully as you can desire, and I hope we will meet again
Having nothing more of importance to communicate, I will conclude with my best wishes for your health
Dear brother I hardly know what to say to you in this letter for it is my first one to you but it will
not be my last I should have written to you before but I am not a great hand at written and I have ben
very buisy fixing my tent for this winter and I hope you will forgive me and in the future I will do
I send you my love and best wishes. Good by from Your Brother, Sergt Thomas P Sawyer P.S.
London Dec 6 th —81 To my Dear Friend M r Whitman, I sit now in my hall on duty, to write you these few
I gus guess I will bring my letter to a close, By sending the Love of all the asylum Employies Employees
years past and returned to York State a few weeks ago think of staying here for a time to take care of my
I have lost track of nearly all my old chums if I was able to travil travel I would like to see some
of flower seeds if so I will send you the money to pay for them and your trouble I will have to draw my
letter to a close for fear of wearing your patients patience to read it Please except accept my love
of this city contained a notice of the celebration of your seventy-second birth day; and called to my
none other than your self, and I have never ceased to feel deeply grateful to you for your kindness to my
visits to him were repeated again and again, until his death, and I know gave him great pleasure .— My
wholly passed from your memory, and to tell you that the lapse of quarter of a Century has not lessened my
appreciation of the attention shown my brother.— May Gods best belongings rest upon you.
Louis, March 28th 1869 Wm O'Connor My dear friend I am anxious to obtain through you whatever copies
with me here, and when you can duplicate the copies we would both be thankful I must beg pardon for my
much when had) I am forced to secure as best I can the records of the experience of others Please give my
Louis, April 18th 1869 Wm O'Connor Esq My dear friend The package of "Reports" and afterwards your letter
received—I intended before this to write you and return thanks for the same—but like many other of my
you for the Reports—they furnished me with just the information I needed and you will please receive my
other reports of a like nature I am very greedy to get these things and shall probably show it in my
the change of "government" will not hurt either you or him I remember with a great deal of pleasure my
morning yours of March 14th —I am deeply sensible of the interest you have taken for me and return my
to fill—it is an entirely different branch of the profession from that in which I have been engaged—My
and the general superintendance of building a piece of work—As a draughtsman I am totally deficient—my
I am now at work in the "Crescent" office at five dollars per week, and my work is done by three o'clock
To My Dear Mother I do want to hear from you very, very much, do write to Walter or me and tell us how
Dear Sister you must also write to me (but please pay the postage) Among the others I must not forget my
the corner" is a very fine public park, which we take a walk in every night I believe I told you in my
My work is good and light.
well now, in fact I have not been sick much at all Dear Mother good bye your son Jefferson Whitman My
better than she had for years before, I hope she will continue to feel so, (I think I mentioned in my
thousand dollars he is comeing north, And I too am saveing all I can get I give Walter five dollars (my
peice a foot square So ended all that Monday April 24th By this mornings mail I received a letter from my
I shall write to you again pretty soon, untill then good bye your son Jefferson Whitman My love to Mary
Our captain though[t] he would run the risk and save the time (it takes some time longer to go through
gather something about his early relationship with Walt on the basis of the latter's short sketch, "My
Louis, Nov 9th 1886 My dear Walt Two or three times within the last half dozen days we have seen (and
As good luck would have it we have had a splendid fall as regards weather—and too my work has been of
short time) this does occur, and of course she gives way to her feelings, poor child, but I am doing my
Louis May 9th 1873 My dear Walt I received your letter and I do not think you can form an idea how very
sincerely hope that you are right in your theory that the slow recovery indicates permanency—I hope to God, my
My main object is to ask you if you can possibly hear anything of Lane's nephew (or boy as he calls him
I had certainly made up my mind that we should meet with partial success certainly, but it seems otherwise
He had held the rank of captain since November 1, 1862, and after the war he attempted unsuccessfully
to secure a commission as a captain in the regular standing army (Jerome M.
machine, and that I must consign myself to the fate of the rest....Meantime I make about enough to pay my
Brooklyn Oct. 8th/63 My dear Walt I yesterday wrote you enclosing the $10 from Mr Kirkwood for the use
Martin "1 " Henry Carlow In my yesterdays letter I said something about the acknowledgement of the moneys
morning mother is not quite so well,—a bad cold—yesterday Jess was sick all day—there is no doubt Walt in my
Kirkwood and is the money spoken of in my letter from Copake. The other $1 is from John D. Martin.
Brooklyn Oct 7th /63 My dear Walt, The enclosed $10 is from Mr James P.
Dear brother I am in a tremendious hurry, and you must excuse my letter.
dear, dear, sister Matty—O how I have been thinking of you, & shall all day—I have not now the use of my
I think I shall be able to carry through my little "real estate" scheme without much trouble, and I think
[April 6, 1863] [Dear Brother Walt,] As I was abt putting these in the envelope my eye caught this blank
much of a beauty as ever…well, not only as much, but more so—I believe I weigh about 200 and as to my
face, (so scarlet,) and my beard and neck, they are terrible to behold…like a great wild buffalo, with
From the moment my eye rested on the Dr I made up my mind that he was a fool, a regular Doctor.
failing very rapidly indeed, he is a mere shadow of what he ought to be and I have not the least doubt in my
Louis, July 5th 1875 My dear Walt Although you hear from us so seldom yet we do not forget you—I expected
By the way, in my last I forgot to tell you abt the "bitters" and to thank you for them—Mat likes them
Five, "An Analytical Investigation of the Resistance of Piles to Superincumbent Pressure" (1850); Captain
to be spent &c Mattie and the children are very well—I am writing this at the office with Hattie at my
Louis, July 31st 188 5 My dear Walt— I enclose a check for ten dollars payable to your order—the money
say the heat was greater on the street level than it has been since 1838—it was 102 in the shade at my
Louis, March 30th 1873 My dear Walt Although I have written two or three letters to you, and Hattie one
I had my plan fixed up as I wanted it and left it with some three or four carpenters and got bids on
it. much to my astonishment I found that what I was supposed would cost at 11 or $1200 could not be done
I think that I have a good bargain in my lot if I can manage to hold on to it.
indirect approach by instructing his brother in a letter from March 18, 1863, thus: "Jeff, you must give my
He wrote in a letter dated May 14, 1863, "my profoundest help to these sick & dying men is probably the
on the finger —and I have just got well of it—and a cussed bad time I had of it too—it accounts for my
I telegraphed Thursday evening and again Friday—and was on my way to the telegraph office yesterday afternoon
In my own case when sick I find that the fact that I cannot get out makes me feel as badly as anything
December 28th/63 Dear brother Walt, My last letter to you was dated from Springfield Mass.
Of course I have had to keep my work up in Brooklyn just the same as if I had not been away,—had to work
a duty to our Mother for her comfort and indeed for her safty and of course I have another stake in my
That iron-clad that sunk at Charleston drownded one of my intimate friends H. W.
He was in my party on the line and was my room-mate for a year.
years I think it would be very bad for him to be put in the lunatic assiliym...i could not find it in my
Louis, Oct 27th 1878 My dear Walt Tis a long time since I have heard from any of you—but I suppose all
well until we had a "cold wave" about two weeks ago—since that time I have felt the very best—and too my
go and get well as quick as she can—I hope to hear in a day or two that she is all well again Give my
If my letters home don't show it, you don't get 'em.
enough to eat & drink, and shelter, in the moderatest limits) any more, since the last four months of my
stingey we wouldent know what to doo but i got the same old retort that it was me that was stingey with my
stiff with them—the Bullards I mean the people that are going to move in—the d—m cusses shant have my
water pipe unless the[y] behave decent—yet I suppose the Park people are mean enough to prevent my taking
I had the Times of Friday while eating my Breakfast on Sunday—that is pretty well isnt it.
stay here long—I begin to like the city better—Yet it dont come up to B[rooklyn] by a long chalk— Give my
Louis, Feb 23rd 1885 My dear Walt I have had such hard work for the last six weeks that I have hardly
books as soon as he can get a little money ahead—but I would like to give him this one He has read all my
keep pretty well and we all get on in the regular old way A few weeks ago Willard Arnold called at my
Brooklyn 22nd Sept. 1863 Dear brother Walt, The enclosed $25 is from my old friend Joseph P.
I have written him in some of my letters what you were doing, with short extracts from your letters.
The whole thing in my opinion is one of the biggest of humbugs.
My own opinion is that he will not recover, that he cannot last long.
do Andrew a great deal of good In the letter that Mother received yesterday from you, you speak abt my
worries you without doing any good, and another thing it is not like you think in regard to cutting down my
Give yourself no thought abt my worring. Something that I have got entirely past.
On 1st of July the Bd of Water Com. abolished my office and consequently it left me out in the cold—it
am sincerely glad that she is getting well again It is sad to think of how she must have suffered My
If you do not use them, and you dont think George will want them for the present, (my reason for thinking
Everything in the way of eating and wearing is awful high, but I manage to make enough to keep my head
Louis, Jan 21st 1869 My dear Walt, Tis a long, long time since I have written you, and I am somewhat
Give my love to all mutual friends in Washington—particularly the O'Connors.
top of a hill, this house was difficult to heat, but as Louisa Van Velsor Whitman noted, "Jeffy makes my