Hot weather here but I am getting fairly along through it—bathe often & live on bread & honey—get out in wheel chair at sunset & after—get to the Delaware shore as before—the last two evenings have enjoy'd steady damp cool S W breezes very refreshing—have rec'd from Addington Symonds his two new vols: "Essays Speculative & Suggestive"—one of the essays "Democratic Art, with reference to W W"—of course the whole thing is scholarly & interesting & more—I have scribbled a brief piece anent of the Dem: Art essay & sent it to the Critic—so if they print it you will see, but for a good while now all my pieces come back rejected (the Century, Harpers, the Eng: Nineteenth Century, the Cosmopolitan &c: &c: all send my pieces back)—Horace T[raubel] is well—comes in every evn'g—is invaluable to me—I enclose Dr Bucke's last, just rec'd—also other things—I am sitting here in my den in the big old rattan chair writing this—if you see Baxter tell him I have rec'd his note & entirely repudiate Hartmann's WW opinions, they are utterly fraudulent—
Walt Whitman