
New Jersey Sunday afternoon Dec 31 '76 My dear Johnston
Supposing you may receive this Monday morning, I feel to say to you & Mrs. J. & all the childer too, Happy new year, for the first thing—& you take this home to Mrs. J to read the printed letter on the other side—(it is one I sent to Rossetti in London, & he had some copies printed as a sort of circular)—
The watch came last evening, & I received and examined it this forenoon—I think it is going to do just right—thanks—very cold here, the gale whistling & blowing about the house, as I write—but the sun shining bright enough. Note in the box rec'd & welcomed—I am feeling quite well for me—If you see J Miller tell him I like much his piece to me in the January Galaxy—it is full of the fieriest horses, held well in hand—tell him to write to me—I shall send you a newspaper to-morrow with some little poems to me extracted, Miller's among them—When you read it & are through, give it to J M—
Walt Whitman