
May I send a Disciple's greeting & a word of loving regard expressive of hope
that you are as well as one may hope to be in the
the "November"-tide of Life.
I am to read a paper before our Literary Society at the close of the year & I am anxious
to prepare myself properly. The subject is yourself as a Leader of the thought & manly
character of the age—a former & Re-former of the times. I read somewhere that you had
a few copies of the original Edn of "Leaves" which cd be got
from you alone. Is it so? If I am
rightly informed wd you kindly mail me a single line
giving me prices & any particulars.
With earnest & sincere tender good wishes
Faithfully Yours Edmund J. Baillie
