
ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE
LONDON,
ONTARIO
London, Ont., 22 July 1888
Your welcome postcard of 19th came to hand yesterday. You seem to be still "among the
midling middling
." I wish I could hear of you rallying a little more. The book
(I have proofs
to p. 92) seems to rather hang fire. I wish you wd hand over the balance of the M.S. to Traubel to do
the best he could with it. It is not good for you to be trying at it and
failing—you ought to let it go and forget
it as soon as possible. In your present state you would not do any good
with the Hicks if you did go through it. Let Traubel have it
and tell him to alter nothing except where necessary to make sense and connection, and let it be
printed and the book brought to an end. We are having warm rainy weather here, all
crops look well. We are having a splendid year. Just now raspberries and currants
are plentiful with us. We had our first new potatoes out
of our garden today (Your potatoes are old
before this). In a few minutes I am going out
to Catholic Chapel—(we had protestant service this morning). There is nothing
narrow about us here, we have all kinds of clergymen and services turn about. We are
all well, I am keeping first-rate. You seem to have had a cool summer so far—I
hope it may keep on so

