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By this morning mail arrived your two post cards of 21st and 22d and also "Truth" for 19th inst. for which latter many thanks I was going to write for it and am glad to have it without waiting. I like "Old Chants" well—exceedingly, indeed.—Walt, I cannot see this falling off that they speak of in your poetry—some of your late prose has not been to my mind up to your standard—but your verse has not fallen off—of course you do not write now as you did in the "Song of Myself" days—in power there has been since then a tremendous drop—but that drop occurred in the early '60—Since then you have held your own and today your verse has as great, as wonderful subtlety and charm as   ever it had.

Stoddart's column is interesting and in good taste.—

I am real glad that you have had the doctor and more glad still that you seem to take kindly to him—I hope now that you will let him keep coming and I am certain he will help you—that he thinks things fairly satisfactory with you is good and comforting.

All quiet with us here—nothing settled yet as to when Mrs B. & self shall go east.

The meter, as usual, moves along slowly but prospects remain good I still think we should make a big thing of it but it may take a while yet

So long! With best love R M Bucke