
Another dear, good letter from you was received yesterday for which I send you my heartiest thanks. How good it is of you to write to me so often! And you suffering from so many physical disabilities too!
I can do naught but reverently accept these continued tokens of your great love & with grateful heart say—"I thank you."


The best & most welcome news in your letter was contained in the words—"nothing worse with me" which was indeed glad tidings to us all here I do hope & trust that this comparatively good report will be confirmed by the next news about you.
I thank you, too, for sending me Dr Bucke's letter to you from Montreal & I shall look forward to seeing a copy of his address, as I feel sure it will prove well worthy of the man whom I am proud to call friend.
I am very sorry to hear that good Mrs Davis has had a ten days illness, but am glad to know that she was getting better when you wrote. Will you please give her my kindest regards & my sincere sympathy in her trouble which I trust may be nothing serious? She must take care of herself for her own & for all our sakes.
I received the book you kindly sent for George Humphreys
yesterday & thank you cordially for your kindness in sending it. He is very
proud of it & will write to
thank you personally by next mail. He is a very
intelligent working-man, mainly self taught, & has a sincere love for you &
appreciation of your message.
I am sending you this month's Review of Reviews, & a cutting from the Strand Magazine for Oct about yr friend Tennyson wh: will interest you.
Weather here very unsettled—a great deal of rain. Today we had some magnificent cloud effects.
I am wondering often & often about my dear friend Wallace & his doings. You dont know how much we all miss him & how we are hungering & thirsting for him.
God's blessing rest upon you & yours now & ever is the heart felt prayer of yours affectionately
J. Johnston
