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Suppose you got the papers &c: with report of the dinner, speeches, &c:—quite a success, a great crowd, mark'd enthusiasm & yet a sort of Quaker (even Greek) no-excess, no hifalutin over all—the project now is to have all, speeches &c: printed in full in a handsome 72 page booklet (50cts) pub'd by Dave McKay—

Suppose you got the pocket-book b'd copy of L of G—Felt better than usual & very phlegmatic (fortunately) Friday evn'g—& ever since—not quite so well to-day—weather heavy, damp, cloudy to-day—have been feasting on strawberries (a big basket f'm my sister Lou, the best I ever saw)—We are all gloomy here, f'm the dreadful cataclysm in Cambria county, Penn:—the more we hear, the worse &more destructive & deadly it proves—

June 5 11 a m—Have just come out of the bath room—feeling fairly, leaning toward better, to-day—breakfast of rice-&-mutton soup, & asparagus galore—fine sunny day, not warm—A long good letter (Chicago) from a western soldier boy of twenty four years ago—have not heard f'm Mrs: O'C—send her the Boston or other paper 'most every day—have rec'd a good letter & gift from two friends in Bolton, England—did I tell you I rec'd a handsome birthday gift (all lump'd) from Edward Carpenter, two sisters named Ford (Leeds), & others? Good wishes to Mrs: B. and all the childer—Y'rs ab't the ball &c: rec'd—I believe Herbert G. expects to return to London next September. Ed and Horace well—I go out in the wheel chair—

Walt Whitman  

yr's of 3d came—acknowledging pocket b'k ed'n L of G