
I received yours of the 29th last evening and hasten to comply with your request. a friend in the City will send you a check today for fifty Dollars Hector would be very glad to do it, but he left the City last monday.
I will help to pray for the good time which you evidently think is in reserve for
you, I am quite sure it is—we all have times of groping in the dark but there
is always enough light to find the true way, one thing has never failed me, that is
to do this moment whatever my best judgment says I ought
to do, and every succeeding hour and day it becomes easier to follow the same plan,
in that way I have been enabled to overcome difficulties which many many times looked to
be quite impassable. I never put off for tomorrow what ought to be done to day.
Am I writing a homily? I did not intend it. I know you will excuse me for apparently medling meddling with your business I can not help it perhaps as I feel so great an interest in the success of Leaves of Grass. I was thinking yesterday of the difficulty you must have in having the work published, it is so ultra the publishers and it occured occurred to me that it was quite possible that Mr Arnold or Mr Verner (I believe they have a press) could do it. With this hint I leave the subject to your better judgment
Mrs Walton has some means and I think would be willing to assist in geting getting out the work, entrenous.

I received a letter yesterday from a friend who stated that he had just received a letter from Worcester, in which the writer says, that Mr Alcot says, Walter Whitman is about to publish another edition of Leaves of Grass, leaving out all the objectionable parts, my friend in reply said he had understood that you intended no such thing. but intended to leave out every thing but your own poems.
He that receives the inspiration knows the best, but I with all my ultra radicalism
would be delighted if some of the expressions were left out, the pictures are too vived vivid
in some instances. where it seems to me that common instinct seeks
privacy, at the same time the entire nakedness of the intercourse is rather
calculated to increase libidinousness in weak minds which Heaven knows is
frightfully rampant, I feel constrained to treat all subjects of thought equally free and dispationately dispassionately
, but distrust the good effect of dwelling upon the rapture consiquent consequent
upon the indulgence of any of the appetites I detest drinking songs,&
poems on the delight of eating the most luxurient luxuriant
food, and always consider their notaries as mean sensualists so too do I
look upon an unnecessary expose of any personal enjoyment, whilst I would have the
freest social intercourse, men and women associating humanly in all the true
brotherly relations of life, insensably imparting the magnetism of humanity to each
other, which would rectify the morbed morbid
condition of society on the great subject of procreation, however this is
ground you have gone over hundreds of times, and I ought to have taken a hint from
your brief note, brevity is not generally a womans fort.
Please write me when you receive this, kind regards to your mother
Yours in the brotherhood of the race Sarah Tyndale Walter Whitman