
The books, in a bundle, (four complete works) have just gone in Adams's Express, Wells, Fargo & Co: f'm San Fr, a bundle in brown envelope, (16 inches square, 4 inches thick, y'r address on) to Melbourne, I have pay'd the expressage throughout—Look out for them in due time & if worth while inquire there at the main Adams Wells, Fargo & Co Express office—of course I sh'l be a little anxious till I hear they have arrived for certain—nothing perhaps notable or new ab't self—I sent papers with report of Ingersoll's address here (in Phila) wh' I hope have reached you before this time—It was a fine success—big hall filled full—$869.45 clear'd above expenses & paid to me—(I will send you the printed speech in little book now being printed in N Y)—I keep fairly—appetite fair—a quite hearty breakfast at 9 to-day, a meat chop, some oatmeal & cup of tea—the grip on me yet and bladder trouble—am writing a little—spirits easy—heavy snow storm & cold these days all over hereabout—but I keep a stout oakwood fire—& read & write & while away the time imprisoned here in my room—hope you get the papers I send—often think of you there more than you know—(my favorite notion is to entwine the working folk of right sort all round the globe, all lands—that is the foundation of L of G, they are banded together in spirit and interest essentially all the earth) My respects & love to you & wife & Fred & Jim & Ada & Ted & Mr & Mrs Fryer & others unspecified—as I finish I hear f'm the express office—the bundle is paid thro' [illegible] to you & I sh'll want to hear f'm it
Walt Whitman