The Scottish Art Rev: with pictures has come safely2—thanks—I am here yet getting along fairly—seven weeks hot weather here—but I hug to my old den thro' all as the best I can do in my immobile condition—no sales of books3—love to all inquiring friends—am comfortable as I write—
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).