
My heartiest thanks to you for your letter with enclosures recd by last mail.
How kind & considerate of you it was to write your letter upon Prof.
Buckwalter's!—thereby endorsing the professor's eulogistic references
to me & my "Notes," &
enhancing its value a thousand fold.
My best thanks to you for that.
I am sending the Profr a copy of the "Notes" with your photograph & a copy of your facsimiled letter, as some slight acknowledgment of his kindness
I was extremely pleased to note that on June 9th you were "more free from
excessive lassitude" that you "retain pretty buoyant spirits" & were able to
"sit up ⅔rd of the day."
This is certainly an improvement upon the former report & I sincerely trust that the advance has been maintained & that you can now get out into the benignant sunshine & fresh air.
Wallace has shewn me the really pretty sketches which A. H. Cooper has done of Rivington & which he is sending to you.
I return H.L.T's most interesting
letter, as I thought you wd like to keep it: but I retain the marriage announcement as a souvenir of
the happy event.
Pardon my not writing more at present—I have had a busy & tiring day in the heat (two tedious acchouchements & two surgical operations in addition to a long list of cases) & I have still a letter to write to my dear old mother for her birthday tomorrow.
My best love to you now & always & my warmest greeting!
God bless you! Yours affectionately J Johnston