Still kept in my sick room & the summer season is ab't over. I sit up all day, but feebleness & inability to get about possess me enitrely.
My little 140 page November Boughs & the big 900 page Vol. Complete are nearly done.2 I will send them to you when ready—Gilchrist3 is here—
Walt WhitmanY'r letter came—
Correspondent:
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).