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Y'r card rec'd—thanks—the best report of Ing[ersoll]'s lecture was the Phil: Times (I sent it)—produced me $869.45—will be printed verbatim in full book & you sh'l of course have one—Dr Bucke and Horace Traubel are in London Canada—H T will be back here very soon—my piece "Old Poets" (gossipy) is to be in Nov. N[orth] A[merican] Review—We have (Mrs. Davis has) just had a baking. O how I wish I c'd send the dear frau one of our nice pumpkin pies—(a very little ginger no other spice)—I am pretty well, but still have the grip badly—Assimilations, secretions, excretions, &c., not markedly bad—well that's a good deal & to thank God for—Enclose letters from Mrs. O'C[onnor] and Dr B to me, may interest you—don't want them back—God bless you & frau—

Walt Whitman