I am still above board & shall probably make a sort of rally—This is the 6th or 7th whack thro' the last fourteen years of my war-paralysis & a pretty heavy one—tided over the others, tho' probably weaken'd after each—I am still imprison'd to room & bed, this the seventh week. I am finishing the little "Nov: Boughs"2—
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).