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  Dear Sir,

I am so sorry to hear of your illness! And very sorry to hear the book has not reached you. I have now told my publisher to send another copy to your correct address.   I shall be glad to hear you are not dissatisfied with the essay on yourself. I formerly sent you some of my poetry, but it was early work. I hope I have been getting on since, & have now got a place   perhaps as permanent as this sort of thing can be!—among our poets—though I am not popular here, or in America. I could wish to be more known in America.

I am glad that you are at last taking your rightful place among the best.

My debt to you is great.   Would that I could express it in person! I have often said the chief (if not the only) reason why I want to go to America is to see Niagara, the Yosemite, & Walt Whitman!

You did send me your works, & I value the present not a little. But I was sorry to see Dr Bucke did not mention me among your early admirers, for I published in "Dark Blue" (an essay you & Mr Burroughs liked) long ago (this one is an enlarged republication of that).

Processing the fine "Democratic Vistas" & "Sketches during the war" &c [illegible].

Yours with sincere respect, Roden Noel.

I venture to send a photo of myself in return for some you sent me of yourself formerly.

I'll send a copy too of my last book, "Songs of the Heights & Deeps"

    see notes June 28 1888 Roden Noel