
Nov: 7—4 pm—Bad physical cond'n enough—last half of the night now generally very bad.—still have my massage soon after 9 pm—still take two meals every day eat but no gt appetite—bowel movement day before yestd'y—sit here in the g't chair with frequent reclinings on the bed all day—frequent letters—some vistors—
Here is an item f'm yestdays Boston Trans—Kennedy seems to be there yet & hard at work—Johnston NY has been quite sick, but is now out I believe—Baker (with Ingersoll) is getting well
Sunday, Nov: 8—Fine sunny day—quiet. Dr L here yesterday—no particular change in situation—have seen O'C's "Three Tales"—most interesting coll'n—well printed—suppose Mrs: O'C must be in Newport RI but have not heard f'm her—O how beautiful the sun & weather look out
God bless you & all W WMr. J. E. Roe, of the Rochester Bar, N. Y., has just brought out a new work, touching the life and life aims of Lord Bacon. The work shows remarkable developments, and presents Lord Bacon, not merely as the author of the Shakespeare writings, but of the literary drama of an entire age, and yet to be known as Bacon's Poetic Commonwealth of the Defoe Period, under the title "The Moral Moon, or Bacon and His Masks. The Defoe Period Unmasked." The sonnets of Shakespeare are all called into relation with his life and aims and to the dusty manuscripts of his pen through a knot of men high in official position; and particulary through the noted so-called manuscript collector of the Defoe period, Sir Robert Harley, is traced largely the English Revolution of 1688 and the overthrow of the Scotch line from the English throne. (New York: C. T. Dillingham.)

