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Some days now since I have written—but nothing notable or different—rather a bad dull time the last two days—indigestion—bad weather—muggy warm, the air a sort of diluted tar—a promise of better weather hence, this evening—Herbert Gilchrist here quite a long while this afternoon—talks well—says his price for that portrait of me is 300 pounds—studio (& address) 1708 Chestnut St. Phila—Harry Stafford here too to-day, he is hard at work (printing & his RR position)—looks well—physique—Horace regular—the books proceeding—Baker comes occasionally—no news yet of Ostler here—

Wednesday noon Sept: 19 '88

Feeling perceptibly better—fair bowel motion—(I take calomel powders)—has been dark moist bad forenoon but just now the sun is out good—the enclosed letter is from Logan Smith—& the Herald extract is from Habberton (staff H[erald])—I am sitting here in my big chair pretty comfortable considering—as I close—

Walt Whitman