Your card rec'd to day—Nothing particular or very new with me—Hot and oppressive here eight or nine days & I have been under the weather probably from it as much as anything—Keep up ab't the same tho'—am taking a tonic dose (iron & strychnia I fancy) prescribed by Dr Bucke to stave off the terrible weakness & faintness—& it does so—but it costs as much as it comes too—So far I eat & sleep pretty well, wh' of course is the greatest help—Got a card f'm Hannah, & have written to her this evn'g—I send my best love to Amy and Warren—I wish I had something to send them—They are getting printed in a little book the speeches &c at my birth-day dinner & I will send you one when out—& one to Emma too—
I havn't been out this is the fourth day in the wheel chair but shall resume in a day or two—I am sitting here in the old den in Mickle st second story near sunset quite comfortable—
Walt Whitman