Rec'd yours last week & was glad as always to get letter from you—Dr Bucke has been here—left this morning for N Y—sails Wednesday next for England—to stay two months—was with me Friday, Saturday & Sunday—we rode out every day—
He is pretty well—I am ab't the same as when I last wrote—am to read the "Death of Lincoln" lecture Thurs: afternoon next in the Phila: Chestnut St Opera House—the actors & journalists have tendered me a sort of benefit—Thomas Donaldson and Talcott Williams are the instigators of it all—(I am receiving great & opportune Kindnesses in my old days—& this is one of them)—
The printed slip on the other side I just cut out of my Phila: Press of this morning—I am looking for your little book—Good weather here—
Walt Whitman