
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. RossettiPlease 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.