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  Dear Walt Whitman,

Your kind post-card of Sept. 30th recd on the 11th inst, and the pocket-book copy of L. of G. received this morning. Many thanks.

I am glad to hear of the visit from John Burroughs, which I know would be a very great pleasure to you both. He told Dr J. that he wished very much that he could persuade you to live near him.

 

Dr Johnston tells me that a friend of ours, & a school-fellow of mine,—Fred Wild—is likely to call upon you. He has been spending a little time in Canada, & wrote home that he would return by New York, & would probably go on to Camden to see you. Dr J. sent you a telegram to that effect last week. I understand, however, that he is likely to have left America before this reaches you.  I spent 3 days in Yorkshire last week—so ending my holiday.—I am by no means so much recruited in health as I expected, but hope to improve gradually as time goes on.

The weather here is broken—two or three days of fair weather alternating with a few days of rain. Fairly warm so far, getting colder at nights.

Looking through some old papers the other day I came across a cutting from the "Sunday Chronicle"  dated Feb 27th 1887. Probably you have not seen it, and I think I will enclose it. It is of very slight value but is interesting because of its source—the S. C. having a large circulation amongst the working classes here & being very radical & heterodox in character.—It pays you the left-handed compliment of professing to employ a "Walt Whitman Junior" on its staff, whose verses often appear but do no credit to the name!

Dr Johnston seems in good health now & very busy.

I hope that the "grippe" has now left you, &, with love & best wishes always, remain

Yours affectionately J. W. Wallace