
Your welcome card of 22d to hand this morning. By same mail a letter from W.J. Gurd—he is getting on well with the gas meter and writes in excellent spirits.
All goes well with us here, we are having at the present moment a splendid rain
which will do a lot of good. The trees are coming into leaf rapidly and in a few
more days at the present rate the country will be green. I have the Tribune you sent
me con'g an acct. of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Walt, if I were in your fix I would
think seriously of going there for the next six months or a year (or even longer, but
that would depend) as a private patient. They might do you good (they will have the
best skill going) and if they did not you would be more comfortable there than
anywhere else perhaps in the world. If you would think well of this I would go to Baltimore—make all the arrangements and then
take you from Camden to the Hospital. There is no palace in Europe so comfortable
for a sick or half sick man as this hospital would be. Think this over seriously (it
is worth it) Show this letter to Horace and talk it over with
him (but H. does not half realize as I do the boon such a chance would be to you)
P.S. I enclose the cutting that you may look over it again if you feel to. The more I think of it the more I think you decidedly ought to go—
RMB.N.B. I do not suppose the expence expense would be much more than the present subsidy but if it is we can easily get more money
RMB.