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  Dear friend

Your letter of over a week ago rec'd​ —& I should have answer'd​ before, but I expected to come down myself, or send word—but one thing or another delays the publication of my new book, & I am waiting for that—it is all printed and ready, & will be out early this coming week—I will bring you one when I come down—there is lots in about the pond & the old lane &c. and my times there five or six years ago—(but there are ever so many subjects in it)—

—I went round yesterday in the rain to make a short visit to Mrs Rogers—She is pretty well, considering—complains of being weak in the limbs & flush'd​ with the heat, but sat in the parlor & talked very cheerful & friendly, some time—said she hoped you would come up very soon—I ask'd​ if she didnt intend going down to your house soon—she said no, she expected to go on east (Mass:​ ) to see her daughter—she said Amos was to be home that Saturday evening, to stay over Sunday—ask'd​ me to come around & get acquainted with him—So I had a very pleasant little visit—Every thing there look'd​ about the same, nice & comfortable—Jane came to the door—

We have had nothing but rain, rain, here, the last three or four days—seems to pour down all day long—it is well I didn't come down early in the week as I had intended   but now as I write (Sunday, late forenoon) it is very pleasant sunshiny again—as I sit here the bells are ringing for church, off aways—sounds very good—every thing quite delightful after the long dark equinoctial storm—but I just wish I was down there this minute—a day there in the woods—

—Where my books are now publish'd​ is 23 South 9th Street, Philadelphia (not far from Leary's book store)—and they have fixed me up a big table and arm chair, by a window up stairs, all to myself—& there I go for an hour or two or three, every day if I like—the whole building is stuff'd​ with books, some old, some very costly, some very rare—all the histories, dictionaries &c. you can think of, & everything else—

—Nothing very new with me—I still keep well—eat my rations every time—I havn't seen or heard any thing of Harry or any of you for a long time—except I saw Joe at the ferry over a week ago—I want to come down Friday next, to Kirkwood, in the usual 4 o'clock train—shall be down Friday—Love to you and George, Ruthy & all—

Walt Whitman