Yours of June 28 just rec'd, & welcomed. I forgot what I wrote ab't the P[all] M[all] Gaz.
—but it was not for publication, (& especially not as coming from me.) I consider myself as most handsomely treated all round, by friends & upholders in Britain & in America—We are having fearfully hot weather here & I am suffering from it—Just at this moment it is clouded—a great relief—H Gilchrist is here finishing his portrait of me to take back to England—it is mighty good both as likeness & work—I am writing a little—small bits—will post them to you, when printed—
Walt Whitman