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  Dear Whitman,

I write in haste, & specially for the business purpose named further on. Mrs. Gilchrist & Dowden (who happens just now to be in London) have seen your letter of 17 March, & doubtless appreciated it as I do. I have received also your post-card of 20 March, & the Two Rivulets wh.​ that announced.

 

What I want to know is the precise fact about the prices &c of your books. The printed slip mentions only Leaves of Grass £1 ($5), Two Rivulets £1, Mem.​ during war 6/—, & all 3 for £2; & of each of these only 100 copies printed. Is it a fact then that a L.​ Grass is not anyhow obtainable at less than £1 nowadays? & that, when 100 copies are sold no more purchasers need apply? w.d​ you kindly tell me precisely about   all this. Were it not that I find the uncertainty about this most embarrassing, & the presumable chance of enlisting purchasers at such high prices much diminished, I shd​ already have drawn up my proposed circular to start the scheme. Perhaps you w.d​ prefer to telegraph back in fewest words: note this as you prefer.

Your poems printed in Athenaeum of 1 April.

Some minor details when next I write.

Your Affectionate W. M. Rossetti

Please tell me also how you   w.d​ like me to send over the various sums I have received for your books. I presume you w.d​ send the books direct to the purchasers: not but that I w.d​ receive & distribute them if really any object to you, but it w.d​ cause delay to all, & to me some work of a kind at wh.​ I am not particularly ready.