
328 Mickle st
Camden New Jersey
March 31 '85
Dear Sirs
In answer to yours of March 27
—Walt WhitmanThe first Leaves of Grass was printed in 1855 in Brooklyn New York—small quarto 9 by 12 inches, 95 pages—in the type called "English"—was not stereotyped—800 copies were struck off on a hand press by Andrew Rome, in whose job office the work was all done—the author himself setting some of the type.
2d ed'n, 16 mo was in 1856; 3d. 12 mo. 1860: 4th ditto. 1867: 5th 1871; 6th 1876 two Vols. "Leaves of Grass" and "Two Rivulets"; 7th 1881.
