
I duly received your kind enclosures a few days ago! I am much obliged to you for your ready response to my letter. May I keep the newspaper cutting or do you wish wish me to send it back to you?
Please send me a copy of "Leaves of Grass"—the Special Edition as noted on the little Slip you sent me—marked thereon at $5—I think that is about £1.1.0 of our currency & for this I enclose P.O. Order but if this is not sufficient let me know please & I will send on the balance.
I sincerely hope you are well—some of us here wish we had the power to stay the finger on the dial—& delay the approach of your December—yet it is better, after all to leave these matters to the All-Father who in Wisdom & Love directs & guides & who "doeth all things well"—
Ever affectionately Yours— Edmund J. Baillie

