Deepest thanks for the $25 the New Years present wh' is opportune—has only to-day reached me as the letter (by not having a stamp accidentally) went to the dead letter office, & has now at last been sent here, & safely reach'd me.
Am still here, writing a little but physically almost utterly disabled & paralyzed—fair spirits however & buoyant—Again thanks & warmest best wishes—
Walt Whitman