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Webster Elmes, Chief Clark. Dear Sir:

I have been badly pulled by the heat—am sick—(home here with my mother)—& would respectfully apply for two weeks further leave—if it can be granted.

If so, I will try to make it up.

Yours, &c. Walt Whitman 107 north Portland av. Brooklyn, New York.

I am due at office on the 11th, and would ask two weeks extension from that date.