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Pleasant cool, calm sunny weather—a rain quite hard, & early this morning—I mustn't shout till I am well out of the woods but I feel perceptibly better—took a quite elaborate wash (bath) in a way that I like—helping myself leisurely—ab't two hours ago—& handled myself decidedly better than five days ago—a sort of nibble of strength—Yours of 26th rec'd—welcomed & cheering—I have told you ab't the facts of Nov: Boughs—I have just read the revised proof of "Elias Hicks"—when ready, the publication of N B may wait quite a long while, for reasons.

My opine is that our dear O'Connor is better—jaunting at present for the time an easier road on plateau land, like—(no doubt sufferings and botherations, plenty—but no one but a sick man—seriously sick—realizes the let up of some of the heaviest burdens)—O'C (do you know?) is writing a defence & essay, generally, on the Donnelly Crypto[gram]—(I predict that it will be better than the C itself)—Ed Stafford has just call'd with some apples & a chicken—

Saturday Sunset

Have had my dinner, stew'd chicken & rice pudding—have not left my room yet, but shall get down a few minutes to-morrow or next day—Spirits good—A letter from Logan Smith to-day—he is a collegian & revels in it—

Walt Whitman