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Again "the same subject continued"—decidedly cold to-day—a good fire needed—I ate a good breakfast of stew'd chicken, brown bread, a roast apple & chocolate ab't 10—am writing & reading a little—friendly notices of Nov: B. in Bost: Transcript (by Kennedy)—& in to-day's Phila: Press (I don't know who)—Probably you have got them sent you—if not say when you write & I will send—a friendly two or three sticks' full in N Y Herald three weeks ago—did you get it? mostly ab't E Hicks—I suppose you got Mary Costelloe's letter to me, I had forwarded you—

No Ostler now over a week (is that a good sign of his verdict on me?)—bowel movements fair—no hitch in the progress of the big book, but slow—my dull indomitable inertia of body & brain tyrannic as ever—This enc: f'm Critic just rec'd—I have ans'd—sh[or]t letter may appear in next C—

Walt Whitman