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  Dear Walt Whitman's

Paper rec'd. with its saddening news of yr increased weakness. I am whirled on in such a melee of work (exhausting driving work) that I have no time to write or say anything agreeable I fear. I look back with feeling of pleasure of the deepest nature to those divine days I spent in companionship of the noblest of books L. of G. & those happy letters back & forth between you & me.

 

Recently someone in Transcript noticed that jackass Bartlett in his "Familiar Quotations" had not a line of Walt W. I went over yr books espec. Song of Myself & culled a list of phrases & lines that I offered to prove the classic & current coin already. However, Clement still holds it in reserve. Will let you know when it appears. wh. may be in a year. After all that your sublime & haughty songs are not lozenge poetry   for silly boys & girls is something to be proud of. It is a book separate "the words of my book nothing, the [trend] of it everything

Sadikichi seems to be in St. Louis.—writing.

O'Connor's book is out I see.—"Brazen Android"

Write dear Walt as of old when spirit moves you & so will I.

    see notes Nov. 18 1891 W.S. Kennedy