
Not a word from Balestier since I wrote to you a week or two since, dear Walt Whitman. So last night I wrote to stir him up, having got instructions from the Postmaster General to start at once, on business, to Paris & Rome. I shall be away two or three weeks. I hoped to have seen him before I went; but you will see how matters stand from the reply of his Secretary overleaf. I don't think it's of much use to see either Heinemann or Waugh; so I conclude to put it off till I return, in hopes that Balestier may be all right again by then. I have fair news of you from Traubel. Excuse brevity & haste.
With affectionate respect H. Buxton Forman

I have no instructions for this; but expect to get useful information, at last, from B.—tho not from H. or W.
HBF

