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  My dear Walt Whitman,

I can only write a line or two tonight—but wish to send you my loving greeting & best wishes—How I long to hear better reports of you! I trust that you are at least somewhat better than when you last wrote.—Every day I think of you, & wish that I could penetrate the darkness of distance & long postal delays that I might know how you are. God bless you always.

 

Tomorrow night I am engaged to have tea with Johnston & to spend a little time with him.—

Weather here wet & cold for the time of year. But we have occasional bursts of bright sunshine & perfect beauty.—Last evening, for instance was gloriously fine.

I hope to have a few friends here on Sunday to celebrate your birthday. May it be a blessed day for you! With a heart full of love & good wishes.

Yours affectionately J.W. Wallace (over)  

P.S by J Johnston. Bolton. May 27th 1891. 8 p.m.

I intended writing a brief note tonight but Wallace, who has just left me, suggested that I might utilize this space on his letter, to send you my word of greeting & my best wishes.

We are wearying to have some news of you & to know how you are keeping these days; & fondly hope that "no news is good news."

God grant that you may be favoured with surcease from pain and some increase of strength!

The other day I read   a good letter from your friend Prof. Dowden, in wh: he says: "It is a long time since I read anything that interested me more than your "Notes of visit to Walt Whitman." Nothing that I have seen about Whitman brings him nearer to me & I like to know that he has such good & pleasant folk about him as Mrs. Davis, & "Warry."

I send you the secondhand of the "Academy Pictures."

Now, all peace & all good & all joy be with you my dear old Master & Friend, is the heartfelt prayer of yours most affectionately, J. Johnston.

  see notes July 8 1891