I want you to write to me again very soon. You have no idea how glad I be when get your letters. Why dont Walter [2]X
Walt Whitman (1819–1892), Hannah’s older brother, the second child of Walter Whitman and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, and author of Leaves of Grass. Of all of his siblings, Walt was most fond of Hannah. and Jeffy [3]X
Thomas Jefferson Whitman (1833–1890), "Jeff," was the eighth child of Walter and Louisa Whitman. Walt’s favorite brother, Jeff played the piano and had a lively sense of humor. write. I wish Walter would send us some Sunday papers we have not seen but one paper since we been here. I don’t believe I shall stay here a great while longer I want to see you all very much I have been away four weeks (that is longer than ever before Walter knows how home sick I was when I was at Greenport [4]X
Greenport, Long Island, is located on the northeast fork of Long Island. Mary Elizabeth Whitman Van Nostrand (1821–1899), Hannah’s older (and only) sister, moved to Greenport after her marriage to Ansel Van Nostrand, a shipbuilder.. I wish Walter and Jeffy was here [5]X
The Heydes are in North Dorset, a village in southwest Vermont, in the heart of the Green Mountains. they could take long walks enough It is the queerist looking place here you ever saw just room enough to walk between the mountains. there is plenty of Bears and some Panthers and plenty of Hedge Hoggs, and snakes. We have quite a large room furnished with half a dozen chairs a very nice stove two beds, table, clock and rocking chair so we can accomadate any of you that is a mind to come and see us.

I will write again pretty soon. I only had about five minutes to write this time, before the mail goes.

Dear Mother write like you did before about them all, tell me who Andrew is reported to be married to [6]X
Andrew Jackson Whitman (1827–1863), the sixth child of Walter and Louisa Whitman. Like his father and brothers, Andrew was a carpenter; he later served in the Union Army briefly during the Civil War. Andrew was married to Nancy McClure, but not much is known about the date or the circumstances of their marriage. Hannah’s phrase “is reported to be married to” suggests that Andrew’s marriage was not an event that Whitman family members attended. Jerome Loving reports that Nancy may have been Andrew’s “common-law wife.” See Martin G. Murray, “Whitman, Andrew Jackson (1827–1863),” in Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia , ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland, 1998), 776; and Jerome M. Loving, ed., Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), 13., and more about the house. you never wrote anything about Eddy [7]X
Eddy (Edward) Whitman (1835–1892), the youngest child of Louisa and Walter Whitman, was mentally and physically disabled. He lived with Mother Whitman until her death in 1873.

Walter must write soon. I want to see Jef

This is like Netts letter