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Nothing very notable or different—Transcripts come promptly & safely—thanks—hear frequently f'm Dr Bucke—had the grip there largely & badly—he escapes—Mrs O'C[onnor] at Washington in same house—I told Horace to tell you not to send me $5 for the little ed'n L of G. as it was a present to you—I believe I have a little poemet in forthcoming Century—the Transatlantics came—thanks—have been kept indoors by the bad weather—sun out this forenoon, but now dark—I sit here the same as ever, alone mostly, in the great chair—two massages or pummelings—& two meals breakfast & supper—no dinner—those four the main breaks of the day—blessedly so far appetite, sleep, even heart, &c: continuing fair as before—but the old machine, the body & brain well shatter'd & gone (that secession war experience was a whack or series of whacks irrecoverable)—have sold a big book & sent it off to Chicago to-day—have been out to-day in wheel-chair a short jaunt—Lord bless you all—

Walt Whitman