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Have had a bad spell of illness again but am better to-day—Have just eaten a bit of dinner for the first time in over a week—(stewed rabbit, with a piece of splendid home-made buttered bread, covered with the stew gravy)—Every thing from you rec'd & welcomed—dull weather, the ground covered with snow—(but my little bird is singing as I write)—

Walt Whitman