
Your letter and the book came to me just now, forwarded from Rugby—I am much obliged to you for the trouble you have taken, and deeply interested in the book, for which I shall write my acknowledgements to the author. Bogue does not seem to have absolutely stopped the sale of the '81 edn of "Leaves of Grass," for he tells me that he has some copies still for sale, but I suppose he does not mean to get any more.
As regards the book just received,
perhaps you can tell me whether it includes the whole of the "Memoranda during the war"
formerly published, and whether it is being published by Trübner & Co
in the same form as the American edn.
I wish to know about these things in case I should be reviewing the book.
Thank you also for the "imprints" of Leaves of Grass—I am rather puzzled by the symbol (a butterfly on the extended finger of a hand) which appears on these imprints dated 1860, & also on the binding of "Specimen days & Collect"—
Yours faithfully G. C. Macaulay.P.S. I presume that my name in the book is in the author's handwriting, if so I shall value it the more.
