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Bad night ag'n—heavy tussel strangling spell (phlegm &c) bet. 12 and 1—& more or less all night but fell asleep utterly worried & tired out toward morning—must have had sleep of a couple of hours—A suspicion of better, very faint but palpable, this forenoon—ate all my breakfast (egg, toast, coffee & dab of raspberry) for the first time in three weeks—& have a slight glint of strength instead of the deadly weakness & inertia of past month—head ache all the forenoon—rather pleasant day, sun out most of the time—anxious abt my Tuesday evn'g engagement next, want much to carry it out—but very uncertain as I write—Y'rs of 8th rec'd last evn'g—have just sent off a "Bruno" to Burroughs and Stedman (at Horace's request) also to Edw'd Bertz Potsdam & R P Smith London—

5 p m—have had my supper—beef & onion stew to which in moderation I have seriously inclined—have just had to deny myself to a bevy of visitors—y'rs of even'g 9th just rec'd—thanks—have not had any doctor in yet & probably will not—what I have is mainly an expansion & perhaps concentration of my long long chronic botherations, bad enough before & when this is off, I sh'l feel sort o' well—how long the light day is getting—the sun is well up here yet—

Walt Whitman