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Not much difference—restricted bowel action, every day or two, (enough "to swear by")—still live on mutton-broth, Graham bread, coffee or tea, mainly—appetite fair—nights fair—no doctors, not one, now for two months—(is it a good sign?)—have taken a calomel powder three or four evn'gs ago, & shall probably take another to-night—write for me plainly the proper calomel prescription—a trifle stronger dose if you think proper—& send me in your next—(I think I w'd prefer to have it from Brown's place 5th and Federal)—

Pleasantish weather, a little raw and dusty—we need rain, & will probably soon have it—

Stedman is mad over that Japanee's item in the Herald of my (invented opinion) lines ab't him—he, S, has written to Horace T. in answer to H T's to him, disavowing the authenticity—Much furore & newspaper reporting here in Phila: over Capt: Murrell of the Missouri the last three days—I see by the slip in this mn'g's Phil: Record a great change, wh' see. I had not heard of it before—

All y'r letters come & are welcome. The enc: card rec'd from Mrs: O'C[onnor] to day—New ed'n of L of G. progressing—Horace was here to-day—My "cold in the head" still adheres to me—Ed is well—Am sitting here in the big chair alone comparatively comfortable—

Best love to you & all— Walt Whitman