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Your card of the 27th of September reached me along with the parcels of books. Thanks many & hearty for your prompt attention to my requests, dear Walt Whitman. The big Bible for my boy will "go home," I feel certain. Your inscription in it is beautiful; and the lad will value the book more and more as   he grows older. I should have judged from the vigour and firmness of the writing that you had taken a start for the better; but I must not assume more than the words of your card authorize, "right arm, mentality, and fair spirits." The Sculptor's profile for "Goodbye my Fancy" is very impressive and grand.   The parcels contained 1 Complete Works, 2 "Good-Bye my Fancy," 1 "As a Strong Bird," 1 Burroughs, 1 "Democratic Vistas," & 1 "Gras-halme." You say more to follow, "especially new issue of Leaves": of this last I am very glad, & hope you will write in it for me; but I think that will use up the money I sent, in all probability; so I send some more. What I wanted "Democratic Vistas," "As a Strong Bird," "Passage to India," & "After All" for was to have inscribed   copies from you. If you conclude to indulge me you can still send them against the present remittance; and I should like, besides, the cloth covered & inscribed "Good-Bye," six more of the unbound copies like the 2 you sent. Then I should be glad of another lot of "Portraits Well-Enveloped" such as I had a year or so ago, and one or two spare "sculptor's profiles." Bucke says you like doing these little business matters &   hearing direct from us now & again. But if I worry you with my minutiae you need not take any notice of me.

Next parcel might contain with advantage one or two facsimiles of your birthday bulletin to Dr. Johnston; and finally, if you advise me of dispatch, will you   this time do so on one of the yellow bits of paper (enclosed) instead of a card? Not that I object to cards, but (as you will suspect) because I want a note from you on the yellow sheet.

I am providing the next generation with lots of beautiful relics of you. My collection of them is a great pleasure   to me, and when I "go under" some other fellow or fellows will have the advantage of them.

Yours with affectionate respect H. Buxton Forman