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  My Dear Walt Whitman,

As this is mail night I thought I would send you a word of greeting & cheer once more and I do this the more readily because in your last letter to Wallace—intended for Wentworth Dixon—you say that our letters "cheer" you. This is more than ample reward and encourages us to write   as frequently as we do for well do I know what a potent influence is "cheer" in a patient's convalescence: it is one of the the most powerful of the physician's armamentarium.

We are gratified to know that at this distance we can help you a little in this way.

My thoughts are daily with you & I find myself often & often wondering how   you are keeping.

I am impatient at the unavoidably slow transmission of the messages from & about you, for you seem to be such a long, long way off. And yet not such a great distance after all!—for in a moment I can be with you, in imagination, enjoying your dearly-loved presence, & this I often am, Master, & Elder Brother dear!

W.D. is very proud of his letter & intended writing to you by next mail.

 

I recd a p.c. from Edwd Carpenter yesterday asking me to send copies of my "Notes" to Ernest Rhys & to Miss Isabella Ford—both loyal friends of yours, he says.

And now I hope this scrawl will find you rather better than you have been & free from your old discomforts still.

God grant that this may be so & may His grace, mercy, & peace be with you now & always is the heartfelt prayer of

yours, affectionately, John Johnston.  

I believe J.W.W. has ordered two copies of "Goodbye." Please alter this order to six & I will remit the cash when I know the price.

Also I would esteem it a favour if you wd kindly send me a copy of the "portraits from life" wh. J.W.W. has ordered & I will remit cash. The money order office is closed here tonight

JJ