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W.C. & F.P. Church.  
  Gentlemen:

The check for $60. arrived safely this morning. Please consider this a receipt for said sum.

I received, some ten days since, the six proof-impressions of the Carol—& am much obliged. (No copies of magazine.)

I forward herewith another poem for the Galaxy. If acceptable, please, after correcting, let me have a good proof in time.

The right of publishing Ethiopia Commenting, in future book, is reserved to me.

The price of the piece is $25.

I have, in composition, an article, (prose,) of some length—the subject opportune—I shall probably name it Democracy. It is partly provoked by, & in some respects a rejoinder to, Carlyle's Shooting Niagara. I think it might be specially appropriate to your purposes & scope. I would propose it to you for a leading article for January '68 Galaxy. Please write me how the idea suits you. Or, as I am coming to Brooklyn in a few days, perhaps I may as well call personally, & get your notions about it.

Walt Whitman.