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Feeling fairly—dark wet day—bowel action—have just written (a ten or twelve line welcome sonnet to Brazil) "A north Star to a South" & send it off to Harper's Weekly—yr's just rec'd—Sold a big book & [sent] it off by express to Maine—dull & stupid as can be here—Capital massages tho' rough & rasping as I can stand like the ones ordered by my old Washington physician in '73—went up to Tom Harned's & took a glass of champagne—H full of work (making money too)—the new baby growing & splendid—

I forget whether you ever got the really good & full edition of Robert Burns—Globe edition, 636 pages 16mo (or 12mo), Macmillan pub'r, Alexander Smith editor—if not get one—the common cloth bound is 3s 6d sterling—I sh'd give you mine but I cannot spare it—Burns shows deeply (they all do) how the personnel, the fortunes, ups & downs & concrete & worldly & physiological facts are indispensable to getting really in his meaning & works—

Walt Whitman