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  My Dear Old Friend,

My heartiest thanks to you for your letter with enclosures recd by last mail.

How kind & considerate of you it was to write your letter upon Prof. Buckwalter's!—thereby endorsing the professor's eulogistic references to me & my "Notes," &   enhancing its value a thousand fold.

My best thanks to you for that.

I am sending the Profr a copy of the "Notes" with your photograph & a copy of your facsimiled letter, as some slight acknowledgment of his kindness

I was extremely pleased to note that on June 9th you were "more free from excessive lassitude" that you "retain pretty buoyant spirits" & were able to   "sit up ⅔rd of the day."

This is certainly an improvement upon the former report & I sincerely trust that the advance has been maintained & that you can now get out into the benignant sunshine & fresh air.

Wallace has shewn me the really pretty sketches which A. H. Cooper has done of Rivington & which he is sending to you.

I return H.L.T's most interesting   letter, as I thought you wd like to keep it: but I retain the marriage announcement as a souvenir of the happy event.

Pardon my not writing more at present—I have had a busy & tiring day in the heat (two tedious acchouchements & two surgical operations in addition to a long list of cases) & I have still a letter to write to my dear old mother for her birthday tomorrow.

My best love to you now & always & my warmest greeting!

God bless you! Yours affectionately J Johnston