Thank you & double-thank you, my dear young man, for your affectionate letter & money help $25 which came safely to-day—Every thing is going on here much the same—Mrs. D[avis] is well & busy—& I sit here each day in the big chair by the window—(slowly waning I suppose)—H Gilchrist is back in London with his picture, wh' as I understand gets good opinions. I have heard from him once or twice. I am expecting Ernest Rhys here soon. Morse the sculptor is still here. Mr Eakins the portrait painter, of Phila:, is going to have a whack at me next week.
Dull dark dripping day as I write. My little canary is singing blithely. I enclose you my last pieces—Yes, indeed we shall be glad to see you—Mrs D will & I will—Meanwhile love to you & God bless you—
Walt Whitman