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+ + loc.00449 + + + + + Thomas Jefferson Whitman + Dennis Berthold + Kenneth M. Price + Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman + + Kent, Ohio + Kent State University Press + 1984 + 129-131 + + + + + Thomas Jefferson Whitman + Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 23 August 1868 + August 23, 1868 + Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. + + + + + + + Thomas Jefferson Whitman + + + Louisa Van Velsor Whitman + + + + +added schematron declaration + converted to P5 + updated TEI header + checked and proofed + added figures + Transcribed, Encoded + + + + + + + + St. Louis, + August 23rd 1868 + + My dear Mother, + +

Having a half hour to spare I thought I could not better employ it than in writing you—We are getting along pretty well—Mattie has gained a great deal in the last week—although to-day she is not as well as she was a day or two ago yet she can go around without a cane—and without limping much—Hattie and Jessie are well as can be—Jessie is getting fat again—and Hattie looks remarkably well—indeed I think St Louis agrees with her if it dont with the rest of us—

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Mat has got a pretty good girl now—not the best—but good as they run—as soon as she can get around though and see to things herself I suppose matters will go better

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Do you see or read anything about a toy called "Planchett"  There is an article in "Lippencotts" Mag for August on it—Davis bought one a few days ago and we tried it but it woul'd[nt] go for us at all—Yesterday a little daughter of a neighbor came in and Mattie and she tried it and it commenced to write answers to all questions like the devil—The thing is a little piece of black walnut abt 7" by 8"—heart shaped and abt ¼" thick

+ + Jeff Whitman's sketch of the planchett, reproduced here from a scan of the photocopy of the original. +
with two little wheels and a hole in front in which you stick a pencil.
+ + A second sketch of the planchett, by Jeff Whitman, reproduced here from a scan of a photocopy of the original. +
 —you lay a sheet of paper on a table and set this thing on it and then sit down and put the tips of your fingers on the top of the wood—in a few minutes the wheels begin to roll and the pencil to mark on the paper—then you ask questions and the "toy" will write answers  I went home last evening and found that they were all in a high state of excitement from the fact that they (Mat and this little girl) had got it going and lots of questions answered—Mat asked it if you would come out and see us this fall and it wrote "Doubtful" (it makes a flourish like this at the end of every sentence)  To a question of who would be next President it wrote "Grant"—then they asked it why Grant would be President and it wrote "Because"—lots of other questions were answered in the same way—you would laugh to see the excitement and expectancy when an answer's abt half written

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I had a letter from McNamee a few days ago—he told me that George had been sent down to Florence for a short time—has he returned yet—I was glad that the draft came all right—and by the way is that car stable yet on the lots opposite my lot in Flatbush avenue—tell George to look when he goes in that neighborhood  If they should clear that out I dont know but what it would be a good idea to build on that lot one of these days

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Mat will write you soon—everything is going abt the same as usual with us—I dont ever hear from Walt—I suppose he is well however—has he been home lately—Love to George Ed and all—write when you can—affectionately

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