
Wallace went off this mrn'g, to start out in the City of Berlin f'm NY. to-morrow mn'g goes aboard to night—in good spirits & well & after a wonderfully happy visit, in wh' you & Canada have big part.
—Sir Edwin Arnold, John Russell Young, & Major Pond paid me a visit yesterday—all went right—Here is the adv't of O'C's book
Sunny cool weather here—I am up here as usual—had pann'd oysters & coffee for b'kf'st—Arnold is cutting quite a swathe here—he is so genial —he is one of my most determined friends—Major P wants to take me out on lecture platform but of course it is out of question—
Walt WhitmanThe three tales are, "The Brazen Andriod," a striking historical romance; "The Ghost" and "The Carpenter," two notatble Christmas stories.

