
Your note with the $5 enclosed, has safely reached me here.
My books, Leaves of Grass, Passage to India, Democratic Vistas, &c. will be duly dispatched to-night or to-morrow, on their way to your brother in Ireland. If convenient, send me word, in due time about their reach'g him—as you will probably hear,—I am laid up here invalided—but expect to get round again
Walt Whitman