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  My dear Sir

The only excuse that I can offer for trespassing upon your privacy & your time, is the great admiration I hold both for your name & your works

I am having printed a volume of verses, and as I wish to show—though inadequately I know—my gratitude to the illustrious author of 'Leaves of Grass' I am writing to beg your acceptance of the dedication. I am quite aware that my work at its best, can be but an unfitting sequence to your name, but my tribute is not the less sincere.

The volume is to be quite a slender one, & to consist for the most part of pieces which  have appeared from time to time in English periodicals. I would have enclosed proof sheets—to enable you to judge of their merit, but I have not received any from the printer yet & I do not wish to delay publication longer than necessary.

Believe me Yours very truly Roger E. Ingpen Walt Whitman Esq