Yours rec'd , & accordingly I am fixing up the copy, which I will send on to you in a few days—perhaps it will be a week—
Walt WhitmanYes—a new one Vol: edition would supersede all others not only legally (I am sole owner of the copyright, which I have kept thoroughly fortified from the beginning) but by superiority, additions, modernness, &c—The Thayer & Eldridge plates of 1860 are in existence in the hands of R Worthington N Y (a bad egg) who has sold languid surreptitious copies—can be stopt stopped instantly by me & will be—(The matter is not of any moment however)—The plates were offered to me two years ago & I refused them as worthless—