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Captain John Mullan (1830–1909), an army engineer, had just published for the U.S.
Lane concerning Captain Mullan (see also Jeff's letter to Walt from April 20, 1863).
Milwaukee, Dec 11th 1887 My dear Walt I received your letter the other day—also the papers with the enclosures—and
you again Probably as Jess has told you I am poking around from place to place spending about 1/3 of my
best of it" I hope, dear Walt, that you will keep in good spirits during the bad weather—I find in my
"Iron Co." and only returned last Monday night. since then I have been very much engaged in getting my
On my return Mat told me all about it.
right—found Han better than she expected she says I have been suffering since Friday with a "run-around" on my
Louis, Sept. 11th 188 5 My dear Walt Enclosed please find check for $10—payable to your order This check
I have almost made up my mind to set it so that a 65 or 70 x 20 foot lot can at any time be made in front
Mr Lane compliments me highly on my bargain and says I have done well .
Sims, a captain in George Washington Whitman's Fifty-first New York Volunteer Regiment, had been the
letter to his mother on December 16, 1862: "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."
On February 1, 1863, Geroge wrote to Walt Whitman: "I have my log hut partly finished and should have
more after that I am kept pretty busy the little questions of all kinds coming up require nearly all my
The blow struck at Lee & the rebel sway in Virginia, & generally at Richmond & Jeff Davis, …is in my
Moses Lane wrote to Captain James J.
I am real glad my dear Walt that you are among such good people.
series of lectures & readings &c. through different cities of the north, to supply myself with funds for my
As he wrote Jeff, he hoped it would enable him "to continue my Hospital ministrations, on a more free
Milwaukee, July 14th 1888 My dear Walt I was very very glad to get a letter from you yesterday.
that you are gaining again—I was very sorry that I could not get back to Camden—but I had to go with my
Sentenced to death after serving as captain of engineers in the Parliamentary Army during the revolution
had a letter from George a few days ago—Mother tells me that George is wanting to get a position as Captain
in the regular Army—I have though[t] considerably about it and have made up my mind if we all go to
work it could be done quite easy —Jule Mason was at my house yesterday and I had a long talk with him
talk the matter over—he can and will help us if we will only make the effort I am going to try all in my
When you see George give my love to him—talk over the matter that I have written abt. and see what he
I love Mat as I love my life—dearer by far—and to have this infernal pup—a perfect hell-drag to his Mother—treat
I wish to God he was ready to put along side of Andrew There would be but few tears shed on my part
It will be a sad thing to leave her with them but I can't think I am doing my duty to my wife if I leave
Y., July 16th 1865 My dear brother We duly received your letter —We of course all felt very indignant
are well the baby is a little down just now—but I guess she will be all right again in a few days—My
she manages to quarrell me out of it—so that I leave it half eaten—she begins by questioning me about my
women [Heyde's art students],...and goes so far as to intimate that I have sexual intercourse with my
pupils, at my room This is damned mean—reckless characterless, common, and disgusting" (Trent Collection
Realy my experience robs my heart of all charity—Han has a plausible superficiality, but under that she
to keep house without stopping Hattie's schools and I did not wish to do that—but I shall not sell my
them away as I best may and hope as soon as Hattie gets a couple of years older we will try again Well my
thinking or wondering about you—I have often thought how I would like to see you and if I can so arrange my
From my own personal observations I think that the newspapers would give one the most perverted kind
My idea is this, to make a certain portion of the city, say certain wards that make a district, not too
My theory is that before the people found out the thing drafting would be over, and like the fellow that
I took out an agreement for Mothers and my names at $19 33 per month Did you get my letter enclosing
I find them of great use in giving me ideas about my business and they are too cursed costly to buy
letter to his mother, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman: "Mother, when you or Jeff writes again, tell me if my
Mason, Towanda, Give my regards to Mr & Mrs O'Conner and friends that I met in Washington— I hope you
requesting ten copies of the Daily Eagle, Walt asked Jeff in a letter dated April 28, 1863 for "5 more of my
Hart, a captain and acting assistant adjutant general in Company K of the Eighty-eighth New York Volunteers
April 20th 1863 Dear Walt, I was glad to hear—from your letter to mother—that you had received my letters—containing
Captain John Mullan (1830–1909), an army engineer, was associated with General Isaac I.
top of a hill, this house was difficult to heat, but as Louisa Van Velsor Whitman noted, "Jeffy makes my
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
stingey we wouldent know what to doo but i got the same old retort that it was me that was stingey with 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
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
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
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
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
He wrote in a letter dated May 14, 1863, "my profoundest help to these sick & dying men is probably the
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
Louis, March 30th 1873 My dear Walt Although I have written two or three letters to you, and Hattie one
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
to be spent &c Mattie and the children are very well—I am writing this at the office with Hattie at my
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
Louis, July 5th 1875 My dear Walt Although you hear from us so seldom yet we do not forget you—I expected
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
[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
I think I shall be able to carry through my little "real estate" scheme without much trouble, and I think
dear, dear, sister Matty—O how I have been thinking of you, & shall all day—I have not now the use of my
Dear brother I am in a tremendious hurry, and you must excuse my letter.
Brooklyn Oct 7th /63 My dear Walt, The enclosed $10 is from Mr James P.
Kirkwood and is the money spoken of in my letter from Copake. The other $1 is from John D. Martin.
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