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  My Dear Whitman—

Maugre yr​ wholesome advice, (exc. that I put in a page on you & Hugo—parallelism of yr​ poetic-technique en-avant freshness &c) I have done gone & published my essay "The Poet as a Craftsman."

I set up every stick of it mesilf indade, & corrected my proofs (wh.​ I'll have you know) were pronounced excellent by the other typos. You didn't know I had learned yr​ boyhood's art, did you? Well, I have learned just enough to set up this & my poems (Heaven bless the mark—"poems" quotha,—I wd'nt​ have you ever see 'em for a Scotch haggis, or a shining gold piece—). I pub.​ an edition of six copies of the poems! Of this monograph I struck off 300 copies. McKay (the "publisher") (lucus a non) has 225. You may tell him to let you have all you want at 12½ cts; retail price 25

   

I do hope you are feeling well, & pray fervently you may weather the winter very comfortably. How's the pony?

I am going to send copies of "Poet as Crafts​ " to Bucke, Swinburne, Tennyson, Rossetti, O'Connor, Burroughs, Dowden (what's his address?) Gilder, & O'Reilly. These of yr​ personal friends I mention so you need not send duplicates. I am sick of the pamphlet by this time; but I believe in it still very thoroughly, & hope it will elicit new thoughts & better, & be a bugle-note for reform.

affectionately, as ever W. S. Kennedy

I read of the English gift of $500, with joy

  I send you 3 copies.   from W S Kennedy | (the Poet as Craftsman)