
Yr's of 8th has just come & I see you have rec'd the paper copy complete L of G—Shall send you another as I expect some to-day or to-morrow with heavier paper covers—the regular forthcoming cloth b'd ed'n will be in new green & stamp—(more satisfactory)—As now I consider it as finished as I propose & laid out—even its deficiencies are provided for, or plainly hinted at—to me its best points are its unmistakable atmosphere and with my maturity or stamina or the like its being in process (or evolution) qualities f'm first to last.
I continue in rather a lamentable condition day & night—(rather easier at this moment in my room all day, sitting in big chair or lying on bed)—unmitigated belly ache fulness & soreness, & continued trouble & smartness & burning bladder & urethra—Dr L comes—have had the bladder wash'd out twice—moderate breakfast of buckwheat cakes & coffee—fine sunny cold weather—have (temporarily at any rate) stopped massages—am too sore & aching—retain fair spirits
God bless you Walt WhitmanMr. Buxton Forman, of the General Post-office, London, has been accredited to the postal administrations at Paris and Rome for the purpose of negotiating for a revision of the existing arrangement for the transport of Indian mails through France and Italy.
Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, is (Reuter's Paris correspondent says) confined to his room by a chill.


