I remain ab't as usual in health—you probably have seen Herbert Gilchrist2, & rec'd y'r picture I sent you of myself (as the "laughing philospher")3—Suppose you rec'd the add'l copy I sent (by mail) to "Demo: Vistas," & the brief preface4 (in letter)—It is near sundown & I am sitting here by the open window, temperature moist & pleasant, & I feeling comfortable—Our "Indian Summer" now—
Sunday mn'g Oct. 2—Fine sunny mn'g—I have had a bit of mutton chop & some coffee—relish'd well—am going out for a drive in the country—am feeling comfortable—love to you and H[erbert] G[ilchrist].
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).