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  Syracuse Dear Friend Walt Whitman

It has been a long time since we have heard from each other and I am feeling quite anxious to hear from my kind & Loving Friend again and hear how he is getting along in this world, but I think I can imagine about how you are getting along, in just about the same way that you used to at Armory Square Hospital when your kind face & pleasant words cheered the soldier Boys & won their hearts I never shall forget the first time you came in after David & I got there We Loved you from the first time we spoke to you. But to the present. We heard from David last week he is doing first rate on a Rail Road in California & Says he will come   back in a few years a rich Man. I hope he will for he is a good Boy & kind to his Old Mother he sent her $250.00 Last week which will do her a great deal of good.

Father & Mother send Love to you. My little Walt is quite a big Boy most 16 months old and full of mischief, he can walk all around the house & yard & talks very little I wish you could see him.

Write Soon

Yours With Love B. H. Wilson