So you didn't come back—I expected you, & Tom Harned & Horace too were here looking for you & were disappointed. The 9th Vol of the big "American Literature" from Stedman came this morning—I see you appear in it with a good portrait & ten pages of text, well selected—all very good & generous I say—and deserved—O'Connor is also in the book—
Nothing very new in my condition—am sitting here in big chair in den alone—cloudy day, portending more rain—
Love to 'Sula and to Julian—I see you are extracted from & biographised in "Harpers Fifth Reader" too—
Walt Whitman