
We are back only a few days from Delaware C., where we had a good time, tho' the winter was very severe & I was storm bound in the house 4 days. I spent all the good days upon the hills & mountains hunting foxes or else upon the ice hooking up suckers; & now I am paying the penalty of the exposure to the severe
cold in another attack of neuralgia in my arm & shoulder: it is very severe night & day. Wife & baby are pretty well; the baby is a great help, though he makes lots of work & trouble. Smith & family are well; he is working on the ice. He was pleased with his gloves.
I have just sent off my MS. to Briton. At first the publisher liked the title "Locusts & Wild Honey" but now they write me they dont like it—think it will mystify people &c.

Tell me what you think. I send you a list of the subjects. They have nearly all been in print in the magazines, but I have been overhauling them very severely this fall. If I can devise a better title I shall do so, but I think my readers will understand this one; the great public does not care for my books anyhow.
When are you coming to N.Y ?
With much love John Burroughs

- Locusts & Wild Honey
- Contents [no handwritten text supplied here] Pages
- 1 The pastoral Bees 22 ¼
- 2 Strawberries 12
- 3 Sharp Eyes 30
- 4 Is it Going to Rain 30
- 5 Speckled Trout 30
- 6 Birds & Birds 16
- 7 A Bed of Boughs 30
- 8 Birds nesting 10
- 9 The Halcyon in Canada 44
- 10 A White day & a Red Fox 12
- [no handwritten text supplied here]236¼
- Blank leaves 18
- [no handwritten text supplied here]254 ¼
