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Rather a bad day with me but the sunniest cheeriest look outside—Dr [Bucke] is somewhere over at Phila: with a party testing the meter at some office at experts—no doubt the m[eter] will stand that & every other test—

Alone all day & in the room—one of the watermen came to see me yesterday afternoon & told me all ab't the river & ferry (of wh' I knew so much & was fond—b[u]t now kept from a year & more)—

Love to you and N[elly]— Walt Whitman