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A thousand thanks, dear Walt, for the bound, autographed copy of "Goodbye" which reached me yesterday. It is a mighty pretty little book, beautifully printed on first class paper and whatever may be said (from a literary standpoint) about a falling off in verse or prose (which I neither disagree nor altogether agree with) I say now and will always maintain that the little volume is exactly what it should be from a far higher and more important point of view. We have now (I think) the whole man as far as he could be given in this way and (as far as I can see) there is no need of writing any more—still if there should be more to come we shall be glad to have it. I am pretty busy putting things in shape for my two months absence. Weather & grounds perfect here. Syringas piled up like snowdrifts

R M Bucke   see notes June 29 1891