The T[ribune] & your Monday's letter came—wonder if A[nthony] C[omstock] don't feel the Knout & the blood trickling—the reader almost does—Specimen Days is all in type & receiving the finishing touches—is to be on the market the 15th—will send you the earliest copy I can get—two moist, hot, close, unhealthy days here—but as I write the breeze is beginning to spirt up, lively & cool—
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