
TEMPLE ROAD. Rathmines, Dublin. November 21. 1882. Dear Mr. Whitman,
Your card & "Progress" have just arrived. I rejoice that with the ill tidings of your recent prostration comes good news of your recovery. May this better condition continue! You annex your friends so closely, that your health & strength becomes part of theirs—
I send you the Academy with my notice of Specimen
Days. I closed my review with a wish that you might try
a voyage across the Atlantic. It would be a happy thing if we could have you here for a while, where you would find a bedroom, books,
&, in summer, flowers & birds, beside a friend or two. Think of this. In
London, I am sure, your
welcome would be hearty.
Please notice a few lines by the editor of the Academy (I suppose) on p. 362. Who his informant was I do not know.
Most truly yours, dear friend, Edward Dowden.