
Thanks my dear friend for the nice chicken—I have just had a part of it for my dinner—& the honey in the comb just like that is something I like—I had a very pleasant visit out in Germantown—I went partly at the request of a fine jolly young Englishman who is visiting there for a few days, & told me much about my friends in England (of whom I find I have far more than I knew of)—
I am about as usual—feel considerably better, more able to get around since the cool
weather has set in—had rather a bad summer—my walking power gives out
more this year, & I am afraid is destined to be worse, instead of
better—otherwise I am about the same—appetite good—spirits
ditto—
—I am sorry I wasn't in when you stopped this forenoon—have been hoping you would stop this afternoon—Does George keep well this fall?—Ruth how do you like married life?—I rec'd the cake—very nice—Well Ed, how are you about Cleveland?—I am just as well satisfied—
—I have rec'd a long letter from Herbert—nothing very new. The Lord bless you & be with you all—
Walt Whitman