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  Dear Walt Whitman:

We are back only a few days from Delaware C., where we had a good time, tho' the winter was very severe & I was storm bound in the house 4 days. I spent all the good days upon the hills & mountains hunting foxes or else upon the ice hooking up suckers; & now I am paying the penalty of the exposure to the severe   cold in another attack of neuralgia in my arm & shoulder: it is very severe night & day. Wife & baby are pretty well; the baby is a great help, though he makes lots of work & trouble. Smith & family are well; he is working on the ice. He was pleased with his gloves.

I have just sent off my MS. to Briton. At first the publisher liked the title "Locusts & Wild Honey" but now they write me they dont like it—think it will mystify people &c.

 

Tell me what you think. I send you a list of the subjects. They have nearly all been in print in the magazines, but I have been overhauling them very severely this fall. If I can devise a better title I shall do so, but I think my readers will understand this one; the great public does not care for my books anyhow.

When are you coming to N.Y​ ?

With much love John Burroughs