Hope this will find you at ease & comfortable—With me every thing continues on much the same—am slowly getting on with the new (pocket-book) ed'n L of G. with Annex2 bits & Backw'd Glance at end—My cold in the head still keeps on & pretty bad—have just had several visitors—
Walt WhitmanCorrespondent:
William Douglas O'Connor
(1832–1889) was the author of the grand and grandiloquent Whitman pamphlet
The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication, published in 1866.
For more on Whitman's relationship with O'Connor, see Deshae E. Lott, "O'Connor, William Douglas (1832–1889)," Walt
Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1998).