
Your letter has come & is welcomed—Nothing specially new with me—I have stood the hot weather pretty well & have just eaten my dinner with zest—Young Gilchrist is here yet—the portrait is ab't finished—good—he expects to take it to London for the May opening Royal Academy—I hear from your folks in London—How happy Mary must be!—
Quite a good many visitors come here—they talk & I talk—as I write it is cloudy & comparatively cool & I am enjoying all. The carrier just brings me a letter from Dr Bucke—he is well & busy—comes this way early in September—Love to you, dear friend
Walt Whitman