I [illegible] to take the liberty of asking you if you can be so kind as to get me the following information
A clergyman friend of mine has lent me a copy of "Leaves of "Grass" published at Boston
Walt Whitman Esq. Camden New Jersey
loc.03498.002_large.jpg loc_jm.00242.jpgfrom 30 or so years ago with a portrait of yourself at its beginning
I want to be able to buy one written or any other edition which is wholly unemasculated & I would gladly remit the cost and any Customs Duty if I could be put with the proper channel
I pray you will excuse the great liberty I take & [illegible] subscribe myself your very obedient & admiring servant
William Payne Treasurer of the Burrough of Portsmouth loc.03498.003_large.jpgCorrespondent:
Little is known about William Payne, who was a manager of
the National Provinicial Bank of England for Portsmouth.