carefully. When it is achieved it will probably be the result
and fruit of more reviewing and discussion. I shall keep my
eyes wide open; and the volume with O'C.'s introduction shall
come out just as it is: I am not sure but that it will in the
end have to be done at our own expense--which I believe would
be repaid. It is the kind of book that if it can once get out
here will sell. The English groan for something better than
the perpetual rechauffe of their literature. I have not been
in London for some little time and have not yet had time to
consult others about the matter. I shall be able to write you
more satisfactorily a little later. I hear that you have
written something in _The Galaxy_. Pray tell O'Connor I shall
look to him to send me such things. I can't take all American
magazines; but if you intend to write for _The Galaxy_
regularly I shall take that. With much friendship for you and
O'Connor and his wife, I am yours,

Moncure Conway.

From John Addington Symonds to Walt Whitman:

Clifton Hill House, Bristol,
July 12, 1877.

Dear Mr. Whitman:

I was away from England when your welcome volumes reached me,
and since my return (during the last six weeks) I have been
very ill with an attack of hemorrhage from the lung--brought
on while I was riding a pulling horse at a time when I was
weak from cold. This must account for my delay in writing to
thank you for them and to express the great pleasure which
your inscription in two of the volumes has given me.

I intend to put into my envelope a letter to you with some
verses from one of your great admirers in England. It is my
nephew--the second son of my sister. I gave him a copy of
_Leaves of Grass_ in 1874, and he knows a great portion of it
now by heart. Though still so young, he has developed a
considerable faculty for writing and is an enthusiastic
student of literature as well as a frank vigorous lively young
fellow. I thought you might like to see how some of the youth
of England is being drawn towards you.

Believe me always sincerely and affectionately yours.

J. A. Symonds.

From Edward Everett Hale to Dr. Lyman Abbott:[11]