
A word first for Pardee—gone over then to the majority, where we are all steadily tending "for reasons"—blessed be his memory!
—have just eaten my supper, stew'd chicken & rice—feel poorly these days & nights— a shade easier this evn'g—the heat I suppose has sapp'd & Indigestion's talons are fix'd on me again—yours rec'd this P M—cooler —a rain in prospect—
Walt Whitman