
I enclose a Postal order for £4, and want you to mail one copy of your great big volume complete edition to my friend Robert F. Muirhead 174 Bath Row, Birmingham and two copies of your pocket book edition of Leaves of Grass printed on thin paper to me as above.

This is on the supposition that your big vol. costs £2 and the other one £1: but I am not sure (writing from Birmm) of the prices—anyhow send a copy of each—and if you wd write Muirhead's name in the big vol he wd be pleased.
If you see Traubel will you thank him for me for various letters & papers rec?, wh. I ought to have acknowledged I
suppose we shall see his & Bucke's joint vol. out soon.
I wonder how you are, dear Walt. Is anything being done about an edition, complete, of Leaves of G. in
England—because I have no doubt it wd go off pretty well, and many people do not get the book now because
they do not know where to apply? I suppose
you have not much respite from bodily ailments—troubles. If you are not feeling
well do not trouble about this letter—but hand it over to Warry or Traubel.

