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—Sunny cool day—Warry (my nurse) proposes that we get a horse and wagon & drive down to the Staffords's, but I dont feel for it somehow—I enclose the O'C preface, such as it is—I wanted to put on record my personal tribute—I havn't heard for some time f'm Mrs: O'C—don't know whether the Tales have settled on publisher, & when to appear—

—Y'r letter rec'd—don't misconstrue me—I only deprecate any solicitation of Ing: but am wholly & deeply proud & responsive to his good will &c—(shall probably go & sit in propria personae on the platform or front seat)—consider Ing: as one of the very few first class individual American typical men of the present time, wholly worthy of the land and day—his very specialties & points (oddments—marks) prove the rule—prove his splendid freedom & individuality—have rec'd letters f'm J H Johnston—am unshaken in my preference of N Y city for the Ing: speech—

Sept: 25—Rec'd this mn'g the enc'd f'm Dr Johnston—also letter f'm J H Johnston, advocating New York as place for Ing: speech—you know what my feeling (or preference) is, but I believe I don't care to interpose definitely in deciding it, as Horace & the Phila: friends are quite vehement for Phila: since the action of the Academy Directors—you know too the Y. M. Christ: Ass: Directors refused me their Hall to address on Elias Hicks—so our friends are on their mettle here—cold spell of weather here—grip bad on me to-day side, back of neck sore & swelled—of course have written to Mrs: O'C & sent the preface—sun shining brightly out.

Walt Whitman