
Your kind & most welcome p.c. of Nov. 22nd came by last mail & glad indeed was I to receive it from your dear hand
My best thanks to you for it.
I note that you were then "much the same" tho' "in depressed condition." That you are no
worse is good news though I long to hear better &
eagerly anticipate it. But I suppose we must be thankful even for small mercies. God
grant that your long night of physical depression will soon brighten & pass away.
I am sorry to hear that Mrs. Davis continues to suffer & I hope that she too will soon be well again.
I have recd a good long letter from Warry containing lots of most welcome
bits of interesting things about you & others.
By the way wasnt that a compliment wh. Sir E. Arnold paid to him in his book
"Seas & Lands" (given in the Academy I sent you)?
At the station bookstall today I picked up Literary Opinion Xmas no. & in the American correspondents letter it was stated that Sir Edwin Arnold had touched the heart of every patriotic American by his action in visiting you. He has a new poem in the Lady's Pictorial Xmas no. wh. I will send you by this mail.

Sat Dec 5th '91 This aftn I stole a couple of hours from my work & went over to see J.W.W. at Anderton where we had a good talk—mainly about you of course—& he shewed me the various mementos of his visit to America & Canada, including a portrait of O'Connor wh. I am going to copy & gave me some grasses & stones from the beach at Peashore.
George Humphreys has just been in & he sends his love to you & his thanks for the autograph portrait you kindly sent him by Wallace
With best love to you I remain Yours affectly J Johnston to Walt Whitman
