Tho't I w'd send a line as you prob. want to know—I think I shall pull through, but it is really the toughest whack of all coming on the rest, & the condition I am & have been in—one of the best points is a good bowel discharge an hour ago, the first of a week—fortunately too the weather is favorable again—sweat freely—eat little or nothing—drink milk punch—have g't thirst—phlegm accumulations in throat & chest pretty bad still but not as bad (half strangling me at night) as they were—I am at this moment sitting here in big chair, some headache &c but more comfortable than might be expected—
Walt Whitman