
I wrote you some weeks since saying that I had a copy of the first edition of
your poems upon a flyleaf of which I was very
anxious you should write a line or two and your name.—
I further said that I would be delighted to offer you $10 not so much as compensation for the service rendered—as
an expression of my appreciation of your
great kindness.
Not having heard from you in any way I fear lest my letter may have gone astray.
My friend Col. Ingersoll writes me that he is going to send me a copy of his tribute to you in Horticultural Hall—a tribute I
was fortunate
enough to hear—one worthy of its subject—and that's
great praise!
If needful I could I think get a note of introduction to you from my friend John Burroughs—
With great respect: Jahu DeWitt Miller Walt Whitman.