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The news is pretty gloomy yet from O'C[onnor] as you see from the enclosed card—Ab't the same with me as hitherto of late. Cloudy & dull weather. Horace has been in this forenoon—Ed has just been making up the bed &c—I am sitting here in the big chair back'd with the old wolf-skin—not cold to-day, (but half raw)—Six letters rec'd by mail, & five of them autograph applications! (Did I acknowledge the Bury English paper July 13 1880 with y'r California &c narrative wh' I peruse & over again with the greatest interest?)

Evn'g—All fair as usual—bowel action—the daylight grows apace—it is 7 & I have just lighted the gas—very quiet—even dull as I write—this goes in the Phila: P O soon after 8 P M—when does it reach you?

I see in this evng's news death of John Bright—a grand star quench'd—Herbert Gilchrist here this afternoon—he says there is late news of Tennyson's bad illness—I haven't seen it—

Walt Whitman