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Pretty depress'd cond'n to-day—the tomb pay question (as I said) has been turn'd over to T B Harned with absolute power, & he is managing it splendidly—has got me out of a hole—I offer to pay $3000 (have paid 1500 & offer 1500 more) wh' it looks now as they were going to accept & close it finally—but a day or two more will decide—Ralph Moore, H[orace] thinks, is free f'm any foul practice, & I accept that & am mighty glad so—Forman writes me that Heineman, Balestier, & Lovell want to purchase the American copyright—I do not care to sell it as at present minded—sitting up here in usual place & manner as I write—God bless you—

Walt Whitman