No slips of the printed Preface or "additional note" have arrived yet2—I would like three or four of each of them—fine weather this forenoon, as I write, sunny & "growing"—rec'd last even'g a kind complimentary greeting by cable from Henry Irving3—I remain much as usual—bodily disabled, however, & a prisoner to the house—I expect to see Herbert Gilchrist4 to-day (from N[ew] York)—send me a copy of Spec: Days soon as it is out—
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).