Feinberg/Whitman
Box 11 Folder 17
General Correspondence
Howard, Garaphelia
1865-May 1866WALT WHITMAN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS
1865
No Date
WHITMAN, WALT. to Miss Howard
A.L.S.
FEINBERG COLLECTION OF WALT WHITMANWALT WHITMAN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS
1866
May 4
WHITMAN, WALT. to Miss Howard
A.L.S.
FEINBERG COLLECTION OF WALT WHITMANWashington 1865
Garaphelia Howard
My dear friend:
Accept the thanks of
many sick & wounded soldiers,
for the $10, used to purchase
articles for them, small sums
gifts, fruits &c distributed by your
money through me.
Walt Whitman2Attorney General's Office
Washington May 4, 1866
My dear friend
Your contribution
of $20 for the soldiers in hospital,
sick or wounded, has been received,
- & I thank you for it most
sincerely. I shall apply it to
their aid. faithfully  & with care.

I was out to Harewood
yesterday week & last
Sunday - the patients have however since been removed to
another place, near the old
Douglas hospital. Then there are the Providence hospital, &
the 5th Reg Cavalry & some othersmall military hospitals.

There are comparatively
few soldiers now that need
ministering to, but full enough
to occupy one's spare hours.
- & especially as half of the
inmates of the hospitals are
discharged soldiers, drawing no
pay, though sick, or suffering
sometimes very deeply indeed, from
relapse of old wounds.

I wish you health, my
friend, in body & in spirit.
Farewell.
Walt Whitman