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Dear friend W. O'C

Here I am sitting up in the big chair—I got up ab't noon, (& shall keep up an hour or two, & send you my actual sign manual to show proof)—Have been pretty ill, indeed might say pretty serious, two days likely a close call—but Dr Bucke was here & took hold [of] me without gloves—in short, Monday last (four days since) I turned the tide pronouncedly & kept the favorable turn Tuesday forenoon—havnt since kept the good favoring turn the last two days—but the indications are still favorable (good pulse the Dr says last two days) for my getting sort abt as usual—Dr B went back to Canada last Tuesday night, R.R. train—I am half thro' on my little "November Boughs"—& am stuck of it & proofs &c—

Walt Whitman

Best love to you & Nelly—get your good letter to-day—