Here is for your edition, a special concluding note2 to "Specimen Days"—a short Preface for it I have already sent you3—also I suppose you have rec'd the parcel of pictures I sent you—Nothing very new with me—I have been lately ab't the same as usual, but am quite unwell to-day—I shall send an additional paper or so to eke out the "Democratic Vistas" volume—I told you in the former note that I gave you power to decide in such exigencies as always occur in book publishing, & I confirm it—
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).