I send you some additional newer matter for the "Democratic Vistas" volume2—will write you further anent of the Vol. soon—(will write a little Preface)3—Do not bother or think any thing further of the Swinburne article4—we do not here—send me word if the new matter now sent reaches you safely—I am ab't as usual—
Walt WhitmanCorrespondent:
Ernest Percival Rhys
(1859–1946) was a British author and editor; he founded the Everyman's
Library series of inexpensive reprintings of popular works. He included a volume
of Whitman's poems in the Canterbury Poets series and two volumes of Whitman's
prose in the Camelot series for Walter Scott publishers. For more information
about Rhys, see Joel Myerson, "Rhys, Ernest Percival (1859–1946)," Walt
Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1998).