Osgood & Co: of this city, who have set up & electrotyped a new, complete &
markedly fuller edition (with several new pieces) of my Leaves of
Grass inform me that by first issuing & bona fide selling in Great Britain, I can take out a
copyright there, for this edition (such as it is.) We therefore send you over a few
copies at once, with the request that you will immediately have the book entered for
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copyright & secured in my name—(immediately after which the work will be
published here.)2
I am under many obligations in the past to my friend your Josiah Child, & should like to have this matter put in his hands—should like to have him write to me about it, direct as of old, to Camden New Jersey3
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