Y'rs of April 28 rec'd2—but no slips of printed Preface or Additional Note yet—the P[all] M[all] Gazette rec'd—3If convenient, & as soon as convenient, I want y'r publishers to send me over fifty (50) copies of "Specimen Days"—(two or three of them in y'r good leather binding)—direct the package to me care David McKay4 23 South 9th St. Philadelphia—I will soon send some add'l papers for the Dem: Vistas Vol.
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).