Your card of yesterday rec'd. Best thanks—I am feeling unwell & stupid, dont want to think or talk these times—shall emerge soon, & then define what I spoke of in my last card—Do not come on personally as that would not facilitate—My Specimen Days in America (no "Collect") is out in London in a very pretty shilling Vol—with a short Pref: & add'l note for Engl: readers—I shall have some vols. & will send you one—Tell Rhys to try Sonnenschien & Co: Paternoster Sq: to publish your book—Herbert Gilchrist & Morse are here—hot to-day—
Walt Whitman