I am still here, in good heart (good spirits) mainly—but almost entirely disabled & powerless to move ab't at all—Dr Bucke is well & active at his post in Canada—O'Connor is very ill, & is now in Southern California —W S Kennedy (Belmot, Mass:) has a book ab't me that is to be pub'd in Eng. soon—I am quiescent, but think of pub. in collected & revised form my pieces of last four years in a little book, "November Boughs"—
Walt Whitman