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  Dear Mr Whitman

I was very sorry indeed to hear a little while ago that you were so ill & should have written at once to Mrs Davis to make inquiries if I had not heard rumours of your having been moved from your house southwards, so I wrote to Herbert Gilchrist instead & as far as I gather from a short postcard he has written in reply you are still in Camden. However, not feeling quite sure, I thought   I had better write to you first and hear if you are at home before sending you the yearly gift from myself and friends—I earnestly hope to hear in reply that you are pretty well again & out of pain.

I don't know whether you remember enough of me to recal that I had been a good invalided of late years through sleeplessness. I determined a year ago to try the manual labour cure & have been working since as a carpenter (an art which I learnt as a boy) & it has done me so much good that I hope to return soon to my proper work of teacher.

I have lately lent your poems   to two new friends & have had the satisfaction of gaining their gratitude thereby—One of them was very much in need of the help to be found in them.

With much love & kind remembrances to yourself & Mrs Davis

Leonard Morgan Brown