
211 TREMONT STREET. Boston, May 12 1881. Dear W Whitman
Your letter of May 8 reached here during my absence.
Please send on the copy as soon as you can and we will make careful estimate as to
its size, style etc. and give you our views. So far as I understand it, this
proposed new edition will supersede all other previously published volumes—am
I correct? And please tell me if the plates of the
original "Leaves of Grass" as
published by Thayer and Eldredge Eldridge
so many years ago are still in existence.
I am sorry I was absent from Boston during your visit: I should have been glad to renew the acquaintance I had with you in the old Pfaff days.
Yours truly James R. Osgood Walt Whitman Esq

