
Your kind letter of September 5 duly received. I received also the newspaper you
sent, namely the Camden Post, February 13, and The Times, October 22, 1890. This last one I read with
special interest, as it contained Col. Ingersoll's very eloquent
speech about your achievements. This lecture (I mean the résumé of it I read) I found at once brilliant and true, full of
precision and width.
I was very glad to hear you are always in pretty good health et could enjoy the
last sunny days of the present year. As to me, I was exceedingly ill for several
months (an iliac phlegmon) and like to die. I hasten to add that
this dangerous crisis went away
as soon as a
chirurgical operation took place; and I recovered entirely. These two months I am up
and as strong as ever.
I am now quite used to my new situation, and my opinion, too, is that such a change
of base will be something of a gain. I was poor, unfit for journalistic work and,
nevertheless, wanted to free my intellectual life from pecuniary difficulties; I had
an opportunity to be appointed here as a magistrate. In this way I secured my "bread
and butter,"
and, now, can set to my intellectual task; I can read, write, and think, without
being constantly stopped by pecuniary difficulties.
I wish you, dear Walt, a bright and happy new year; be assured of all my love
Gabriel Sarrazin
