Mentions that his book has been accepted for publication by the Mason Brothers. Transcription: doctors prescriptions, taking, as usual, a shower bath each morning. Since visiting him I have had two attacks, of the duration of three days each, the latter however only accompanied with low spirits, despondency, not the violent hypochrondria ? wherefore I believe I ?m getting better. I am never entirely free from pain in the upper portion of the spine. It is as though the spinal marrow were undergoing some radical change. I find it fatiguing to walk erect. Work agitates me, throwing me into a pa
Mentions that his book has been accepted for publication by the Mason Brothers. Transcription: doctors prescriptions, taking, as usual, a shower bath each morning. Since visiting him I have had two attacks, of the duration of three days each, the latter however only accompanied with low spirits, despondency, not the violent hypochrondria ? wherefore I believe I ?m getting better. I am never entirely free from pain in the upper portion of the spine. It is as though the spinal marrow were undergoing some radical change. I find it fatiguing to walk erect. Work agitates me, throwing me into a painful nervous excitement which I cannot master. Yet I must do the little I can get to do. My book is accepted by the Masons conditionally. They want to publish it at 50 cents, don ?t care about spending more than $200 for cuts, and postpone its appearance till the autumn, or rather winter. No books sell now, ? it is, they say, the dullest of times among their fraternity. I am indifferently well content, objecting however to the proposed price. I think the book ?s worth a dollar [word crossed out]. The matter is postponed. I do not fear that it will get born in due time. [James] Parton and his wife [Fanny Fern] have just moved to Brooklyn, where she has purchased a house. I used, as wont to drop in at the Waverly on Saturday nights, always finding Walt Whitman there, and sometimes Oliver Dyer. The latter, editor of ?ǣthe Ledger, ? and the ?ǣJohn Walter ? of Fanny ?s Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 8, page 16, June 1-30, 1856 . 30 June 1856. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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