
I send by this mail the second part of my study of your works. I hope I may not unintentionally have misrepresented you; but if I could be
one of the means of drawing more general attention to your great works than they
have yet received in this country, I believe I should have done somet'g worth the doing.
May I venture to hope I may have a line from yourself when you have time? And may I
again repeat the hope I expressed to you in a former note (when
I sent
you my own vol. of poems)—the first—of which I am rather ashamed of
now—on account of its Byronism—& too much
leaven of aristocracy which is born with me—that you will
not visit this country without coming to us?

I want to get hold of the American Ed. of your work—which was lent me by Buchanan but I understand it is difficult to procure.
The proclamation of comradeship seems to me the grandest & most momentous fact in your work & I heartily thank you for it.
Walt Whitman Esq