
Wish you a Happy New Year, and [illegible] take it in your new tomes and the "Old Gray Poet", and the other things you proposed to send me when we took "them drinks" in Printing House Square.
By the way in my file of the Sat. Press, I have about twenty parodies, imitations,
burlesques etc of the Leaves of Grass some—indeed most—of which are exceedingly clever. I think if your publishers would
issue them in pamphlet form, together with some splendid prose
criticisms from the same
paper, the pamphlet would sell & serve as a first class advertisement. I was
amazed in looking over the file yesterday to note the number, variety, and
brilliance of the articles which the L. of G. inspired, simply in that one
paper.
I am living permanently here (that is to say in the old Phalanx near Redbank) and my brother is with me and in fine condition, mental, mood, & physical. We hope some day to see you here. You will find open doors and open arms.
Yours as aforetime Henry Clapp Jr Redbank N.J.P.S. I am engaged at present doing the "Persuals" for Jo Howard's Star and editorials etc for the Fireside Companion N.Y.