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Am sitting here by the fire alone early afternoon & will write you a few lines—have had my light dinner—(stew'd chicken & a cup of tea & enjoy'd with sufficient zest)—Feelings in general not much different—of good substantial spirits, the fund still holds out—but quite a perceptible, steadily, almost rapidly increasing weakness of limb, strength, eyesight &c.—In fact a, more or less slow, loosening & deadening of the physical machine—After a dark storm, (with snow,) nearly a week, the sun is out this afternoon & there is a half-thaw—My friend Pearsall Smith (who is very kind all along,) was here yesterday & bro't a great bundle of London literary weeklies &c. wh' I have been looking over—I like the advertisement pages ab't as well as any—I suppose Ernest Rhys is there with you—I sent him three letters yesterday enveloped to your care. I rec'd your letter—Wilson then is the pub[lisher] y'r book—If you think well of it, express the whole MS. first, to me here, that I may look over & authenticate—Put it in stout pasteboards, tie well, & direct fully & carefully, & it will easily travel & the expense will not be great—

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