
Your kind p.c. of July 24th has been forwarded to me here—the photos referred to being I suppose detained at Bolton till my return there tomorrow.
I much regret to learn that your old trouble has returned upon you & that at the time of writing you were suffering from "fearful inertia" & I sincerely hope that since then you have had some relief from it.

Wallace sent me a copy of a letter wh. Traubel had sent to Dr Bucke, containing a good deal of interesting gossippy particulars about you & other friends
Our stay here has been very pleasant indeed as when we have been favoured with fine weather for the most part & the place itself is so thoroughly delightful
I have spent this afternoon strolling thro' the fields reading the
"Song of Myself" aloud to the birds of the air & to the salt wind & am
now drafting this letter to you sitting on a cliff overlooking the sea
now on the ebb. A stiff N.W. breeze is blowing & the great waves
are shivering themselves to spray & leaping in from against the Niarbyl
rocks with a thunderous roar The sun is shining upon the heaving
water with a dazzling gleam & some screaming seagulls are sailing high
over the seaweed covered rocks where a couple of boys are crab fishing
Far as the Eye can reach "the fierce old
mother endlessly crying for her castaways" ["]sways to & fro singing her
husky song" the "milk white combs careering" over
her sunlit breast.
To my right are gigantic wave-washed boulders; to my left rise the grim barren headlands of the southern extremity of the Island veiled in soft grey mist & close by me some black-faced sheep are quietly nibbling the long grass, & occasionally giving me a stare of curiosity
(Here I am interrupted will finish at Bolton tomorrow)

Bolton, England. Aug 7th 1891 We left Ballacooil early this morning & after a 5-mile drive & a 10 mile railway ride we reached Douglas where the "Mona's Queen" was waiting to carry us across the Irish Sea to Fleetwood (3½ hours). We were again favoured with fine weather & had a pleasant passage—it is often very rough—arriving home about 1 p.m. Here I found your kind p.c. of July 28th. The photos of the tomb & of yourself with the other enclosures, the oak leaves & a letter from Traubel all awaiting me.
I am particularly pleased to have the portraits—one of
them is quite new to me—the tomb photo has a melancholy interest
(it is not a photographic success—the print lacks vigour)
& I send you most hearty thanks for all.
On behalf of the Bolton Whitman Church I thank you for your loving benediction & I daresay our beloved pastor—The Whitman apostle in Bolton—will be writing to you by this mail. May it be long ere its candelabras cease to blaze!
Pardon my writing more at present as I am rather busy with arrears of work
God's blessing rest on you & all your household
So long! J Johnston
P.S. I have just received the Camden Post for Aug 1st from H.L.T. & have written to him. For it & for the huge honour he pays us all.
JJ
George Humphries has just been in. He is greatly pleased with your dear message & is overjoyed at the propspect of receiving L of G from you

