I have been going for two weeks to write special letters of thanks &c. to you & T[alcott] W[illiams] for your kindness & labors in my lecture—& raising in it $674 for me. I appreciate it all, & indeed thank you. It is the biggest stroke of pure kindness & concrete help I have ever rec'd—But all formal letters must just fizzle down to this card—whose duplicate I send to T W—
Walt Whitman