
Continue well as usual. Horace here this morning & yesterday afternoon—Tom Harned last evn'g—Geo: Stafford (the elder) yesterday—Cool weather here—fine sunny—My nurse Warren Fritzinger went to Atlantic City yesterday—returns to–night—He is very good to me—made a good relishy breakfast, bread, honey in the comb coffee—appetite fair to plus—I sent you Aug: 17 the "rejoinder" a printed slip with papers—enclose another in this (copied Boston Transcript)—papers notice it some—(is my old theory repeated, that's ab't all)—you are a little more severe on Symonds than I sh'd be—he has just sent me a singular letter, wh' I have answer'd (tho't at first I w'd not answer at all, but did)—have not found the older letter of his, but doubtless will & will surely send it you—(sometimes I wonder whether J A S don't come under St Paul's famous category)—I am sitting here alone in my den thick undershirt & big blue woolen gown but open window. —Scribble away some—
—Love to you & all W W

