Yours rec'd with the good 10—God bless you—I half-moped along all through February, but am coming round, same as before—I go down three or four days at a time to my friends the Staffords, & get out in the woods a great deal—It is only half an hour's journey—go again Friday if it dont storm—Should have come up there with you a month ago, but was hardly able—I got a bad chill six weeks ago, struck in—(was quite well up to that time)—
Your letter don't contain the slip about the Emerson business you allude to—The just published Carlyle Reminiscences so well & strongly praised in the Herald, the Critic & every where, don't confirm or add to my estimation of C—Much the contrary—
Kennedey comes here quite often & is disposed to be friendly—I guess he is a pretty good man, but has the fever called literature & I shouldn't wonder if he was in for it, for life—Lathrop has visited me—very pleasant—Shall be glad to supply you with a set of books of course—I have plenty yet—
Walt Whitman