Excuse the delay—I have rec'd the draft for 10 pounds, 10 shillings, & have drawn the money. As I understand it, the plan is to make a selection from my Poems & put them in a Volume of your "Canterbury" series, to be called Walt Whitman's Poems,—you to select—& perhaps to write Preface or Biographical notice, or what not—I am willing—on the sole & specific condition that it is not to come for sale to this country, without further & written permission from me.
Walt Whitman pri.00009.002_large.jpg pri.00009.003_large.jpg pri.00009.004_large.jpgCorrespondent:
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).