Your little book has come & I have been sitting here by the open window, looking it over the last hour. It is a wonderful specimen, first of typographical beauty & solid excellence—then I find it interesting, absorbing in quite a devouring degree—
Walt WhitmanI am ab't as usual—the lecture netted me $674—Dr Bucke is half-way to England—I have rec'd John Burroughs' new book—warm sunny day here—I am going out with my horse for two or three hours—