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  Dear respected friend

Feeling assured that any information of my doings and whereabouts will meet with only the kindest reception from you, I venture once more, after my long silence, to address you.

If any excuse be neccessary​ necessary​ , let my respect and esteem be that excuse.

When I wrote you last I was attending the Penn.​ State Normal School at Edinboro: Since then I have been in the school room as a student or teacher nearly all of the time I have just finished a very nice essay on school as teacher

(You [torn-away] once said, "That boy has a [cutaway]inion of himself"; but I note [torn-away] telling you facts) and have just entered upon the study of Law; In consequence of my very limited means (as you know) I cannot remain in the office longer than next fall.

 

Though we enjoyed our homeless life in Washington I think I have enjoyed my more wandering life since then somewhat better—If the world gives me few pennies it at least gives me few curses, and, some kind words: Is this good philosophy?

Any words of comfort you may choose to send me Dear freind​ friend​ , in reply to this, will be to me "like unto the shadow of a great rock in a weary land"

I do not know that this will find you immediately—you may have "changed base" since '68, though I trust it may.

Good night kind friend— Respectfully, By.​ Sutherland Walt Whitman   from Byron Sutherland, March 30 1870. ans. April 4 '70.