
I can only write a line or two tonight—but wish to send you my loving greeting & best wishes—How I long to hear better reports of you! I trust that you are at least somewhat better than when you last wrote.—Every day I think of you, & wish that I could penetrate the darkness of distance & long postal delays that I might know how you are. God bless you always.

Tomorrow night I am engaged to have tea with Johnston & to spend a little time with him.—
Weather here wet & cold for the time of year. But we have occasional bursts of bright sunshine & perfect beauty.—Last evening, for instance was gloriously fine.
I hope to have a few friends here on Sunday to celebrate your birthday. May it be a blessed day for you! With a heart full of love & good wishes.
Yours affectionately J.W. Wallace
P.S by J Johnston. Bolton. May 27th 1891. 8 p.m.
I intended writing a brief note tonight but Wallace, who has just left me, suggested that I might utilize this space on his letter, to send you my word of greeting & my best wishes.
We are wearying to have some news of you & to know how you are keeping these days; & fondly hope that "no news is good news."
God grant that you may be favoured with surcease from pain and some increase of strength!
The other day I read
a good letter from your friend Prof. Dowden, in wh: he
says: "It is a long time since I read anything that interested me more than your
"Notes of visit to Walt Whitman." Nothing that I
have seen about Whitman brings him nearer to me & I like to know that he has
such good & pleasant folk about him as Mrs. Davis,
& "Warry."
I send you the secondhand of the "Academy Pictures."
Now, all peace & all good & all joy be with you my dear old Master & Friend, is the heartfelt prayer of yours most affectionately, J. Johnston.

