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  My Dear Old Friend

Your kind & most welcome p.c. of Nov. 22nd came by last mail & glad indeed was I to receive it from your dear hand

My best thanks to you for it.

I note that you were then "much the same" tho' "in depressed condition." That you are no worse is good news though I long to hear better &   eagerly anticipate it. But I suppose we must be thankful even for small mercies. God grant that your long night of physical depression will soon brighten & pass away.

I am sorry to hear that Mrs. Davis continues to suffer & I hope that she too will soon be well again.

I have recd a good long letter from Warry containing lots of most welcome bits of interesting things about you & others.   By the way wasnt that a compliment wh. Sir E. Arnold paid to him in his book "Seas & Lands" (given in the Academy I sent you)?

At the station bookstall today I picked up Literary Opinion Xmas no. & in the American correspondents letter it was stated that Sir Edwin Arnold had touched the heart of every patriotic American by his action in visiting you. He has a new poem in the Lady's Pictorial Xmas no. wh. I will send you by this mail.

 

Sat Dec 5th '91 This aftn I stole a couple of hours from my work & went over to see J.W.W. at Anderton where we had a good talk—mainly about you of course—& he shewed me the various mementos of his visit to America & Canada, including a portrait of O'Connor wh. I am going to copy & gave me some grasses & stones from the beach at Peashore.

George Humphreys has just been in & he sends his love to you & his thanks for the autograph portrait you kindly sent him by Wallace

With best love to you I remain Yours affectly J Johnston to Walt Whitman