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Fine sunny cold day (changed sudden last night)—bowel evacuation forenoon, dark, indurated—first since four or five days—feeling ab't same continued—buckwheat cakes & coffee for b'kfst—"hold y'r horses" ab't the Shakespere—Bacon point—Ign: D. collects a staggering am't of S's conventional, personal inferiority—it has quite seriously impress'd me, & is superimposed on what I have clearly long seen, that there are strange mysteries & hiatuses on the S. cultus matter—but the Bacon attribution & cyphers are too thin yet—too "got up" at best—But we will see what time brings out further—at any rate "probable" or even "likely" wont do in science or history—Sold 50 big books in sheets to McK for some Eng: dealer—shall send you one of the very first new—complete L of G (probably unbound) I get—am sitting here as usual in big chair with wolf (not calf) skin spread back—& good wood fire in stove—Harry Stafford here yesterday & all goes same with them—letter f'm Mrs: O Connor Providence RI—I fluctuate between tolerable & pretty bad—

Walt Whitman