
The worst item is Dr Bucke's bad sickness—see enclosed letter—have not heard any thing since—am uneasy—
—The proof comes & will be carefully & minutely corrected—some slips & papers will be sent you—also of what is printed in March forthcoming Lippincotts
—the trial mulcted B 500 but the government has assumed the whole thing—B seems to be as wholly, morally, everyway scatheless as I see it
—did I tell you Arthur Stedman (dear good invalid, consumptive yn'g fellow) has been to see me?—EC is making g't fixings for the Johns Hopkins lectures—I am having bad times—head, gastric & bladder bad—wet & dark to-day—nights middling fair
Walt Whitman