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Nothing very different—nothing worse quite certainly—but uncomfortable worst kind, head, stomach &c. feelings—fact is, grip, & gastric & bladder maladies have deep possession of corpus & are not going to be dislodged, probably here to stay—letter f'm J W Alexander the N Y portrait painter that some admirer of the pict. & him & me has bo't the pict. & put it in the Met. Art Ex. for good—the proofs of "Good-Bye" are essentially done & pass'd in—Al Johnston was here yesterday—have many visitors, often have to decline seeing—Horace is faithful to the last—long interregnum without any word f'm R P S or Mrs. C—very frequent word from the Bolton, Eng. friends—Am sitting here same—have just taken a pill, & am sipping a cup of cocoa Mrs. D has bro't in—the sculptor has gone back to N Y—returns early in the week I believe to pitch in for real

after 2 P M—fine & sunny out—am fearfully torpid, or w'd try to get—have been talking to Warry ab't India, the Ganges, & Benares (He has been there)—

God bless you Walt Whitman     y'rs of 16th just rec'd