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early P M—have just had my dinner, (plain boil'd beef, potatoes & a roast apple—all relish'd well) & am now sitting here in my big chair in the little front room

—Cold & cloudy out—looks like winter

—O'C was here eight days ago, spent an afternoon & Evn'g with me—& is now in Wash'n, & at the office—He is in a pretty bad way—paralysis the Dr now calls it—(I will get Kennedy to send you on a letter giving fuller details)—The Pall Mall Gaz. letter you speak of appears to have erased a sentence or two (showing my gratitude & appreciation of home helpers)—but even as it is I hope it doesn't bear the construction you speak of—I enclose my last two bits tho you may have seen them before—

I have just recd letters from Dr B and Kennedy—Herbert G went back five weeks ago, with his picture, & I have heard from him & it in London—they like the portrait—the Smiths are back in Phila—I am much as usual—but the peg-letting down goes on with accelerated pace—

Walt Whitman     10/26/87