
Quite a while now since I have seen or heard of any of you—How are you all—George & Ed & Harry & all?—I am here coop:d up just as closely & helpless as ever—don't get my health or strength an atom more—Sit up most of the time days here in the great arm chair with the old wolf-skin spread back—trying to pass away the time (& succeeding after a fashion) but some days very low indeed.
—Love to you all— Walt Whitman