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  Dear friend

Yours (including J A Symonds's printed note) has just reach'd & been heartily welcomed by me—Thanks—I have had boxed & sent over to you, a large plaster head by, Sidney Morse, the sculptor—If convenient you are to donate this head to the Royal Academy, (or if you & Ernest Rhys feel it best, I leave it to you, where & to what public London gallery to put it)—The medallions and Emersons are your own—except that I should like one of the medallions to go to Mary & her husband with my love.

Nothing very new here—the weather is fine & has been so for many weeks—I am well, for me—drive out quite a deal— the oysters come & have come, & are invariably good & I thrive on them— Dr Bucke is here, continues thro' the week —Gilchrist is here, leaves on the steamer 21st—

Love to you & dear Alys—Logan has been to see me lately, he looks splendidly

Walt Whitman