Publishers secured—(not in the front rank at all, but young, experienced, & I guess square & the proposition to take the book comes vehemently from them)—Rees Welsh & Co: 23 south 9th st: Phila: (dealers in 2d hand books & pub: of law books & some others)—Satisfactory to me, as I see at present, & in prospect. They are to publish L of G. same style as O[sgood]'s ed'n, same price, from my plates, & pay me 35 cts a copy royalty—They are also to publish immediately my prose writings, Specimen Days, & Collect—a companion vol. to L of G. same price & ab't same size, for which they pay me 22 cts royalty. They consider favorably the idea of publishing Dr. Bucke's book also—& I think will do so—though they have not pledged themselves—
By what I hear since I wrote last I think the enemy (in Boston) have formally appealed to the Post Master General to order L of G. excluded from the mails under the Comstock2 statutes—I think the P M G has it before him—perhaps has already decided—I keep well—
W WThe Boston Herald has articles strongly in my favor—Cambridge Chronicle also—Boston Globe also3—Yours rec'd yesterday—