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Y'rs rec'd—Ab't same as usual with me—Dark & glum & rainy to-day—have been scribbling a memorandum of what I saw (ab't 1831) of Aaron Burr, New York—(I wrote one three y'rs ago, but seem to have lost it the MS)—he was one of our most important & curious 1776–1836 characters—died in the last mention'd year—

1 p m Have had a good kneading massage & back rubbing &c—very helpful—

F B Sanborn has sent a letter to Horace, wh' H will some day tell you more fully ab't, but S don't want it published (? at present)—is ab't Edw'd Emersons sneaking lying note anent of me in his late b'k ab't R W E —B is cool & collected & conservative but I consider him a real honest permanent friend of self & L of G—

3 1/2 P M—Still glum & rainy, pouring down hard now & most dark— Of course have been in all day occupying the big arm chair—dull enough, & yet, better perhaps than you might suppose (this vigorous pummeling treatment is a sort of salvation)—have been looking (2d time) again at the Hawthorne in Fields's "Yesterdays"—H seems to have been quite a good deal of what we Unionists & Anti-Slaveryites call'd a copperhead—yet somehow we take to such characters—not pure silver or gold—quite mixed, even questionable—like Burns, Mary Stuart, Aaron Burr, (perhaps Shakespeare)—Lord bless you—

Walt Whitman