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  Dear Walt,

Your kind letter of September 5 duly received. I received also the newspaper you sent, namely the Camden Post, February 13, and The Times, October 22, 1890. This last one I read with special interest, as it   contained Col. Ingersoll's very eloquent speech about your achievements. This lecture (I mean the résumé of it I read) I found at once brilliant and true, full of precision and width.

I was very glad to hear you are always in pretty good health et could enjoy the last sunny days of the present year. As to me, I was exceedingly ill for several months (an iliac phlegmon) and like to die. I hasten to add that this dangerous crisis went away as soon as a chirurgical operation   took place; and I recovered entirely. These two months I am up and as strong as ever.

I am now quite used to my new situation, and my opinion, too, is that such a change of base will be something of a gain. I was poor, unfit for journalistic work and, nevertheless, wanted to free my intellectual life from pecuniary difficulties; I had an opportunity to be appointed here as a magistrate. In this way I secured my "bread and butter,"   and, now, can set to my intellectual task; I can read, write, and think, without being constantly stopped by pecuniary difficulties.

I wish you, dear Walt, a bright and happy new year; be assured of all my love

Gabriel Sarrazin   see note Jan. 20 1891