
This is John Burroughs' Answer to a Card I sent him last of Nov—inquiring about the letter I sent him a year and a half ago—
Please forward him the two pieces written for him after you read them.
We are all about well.
I enclose stamps to pay the letter to Burroughs—"The soul is OF Touch"—how much meaning in that o-f!!
Write when it suits you and boast some on your future prospects.
J. N. Johnson
Yes, I received the letter, with the picture & printed slips last year, & meant to have written in reply, but put it off too long, as I am so apt to do. Did you wish me to send the picture to Whitman? I saw "great [illegible]" [illegible] I have [illegible] since, I think [illegible] spared to us many years yet. He promised to come & see me in the spring.

I have a 10 acre farm here on the banks of the Hudson near Po'keepsie Poughkeepsie , I spend some of my time as National Bank Examiner, but most of here amid homely rural things which suits me best. I have one acre of strawberries, one of cherry currant, one of Red Raspberries & one of grapes. I also have a [illegible] orchard. I like the [illegible] fruits [illegible] hay. I [illegible] sometime take hold myself.
Crops here of all kinds were much injured by the drought, —am sorry to hear of your bad luck & that with the rest death has taken one of your flock.
I have no children & so am exempt from the pain of their loss.—Sorry you did not vote. I think Hayes is the man for all men of progress & ideas. Let me hear from you again. I will not be so dilatory in answering again. [illegible]
[illegible][illegible] this morning.
J.B.