Mr Child tells me you would like a piece from me for the Tobacco Plant. Will this do? The price is $12—(? two pounds eight shil )—
If you print it I hope you have a good proof reader, & that he will be very particular with it—
Walt WhitmanAlso please send me three copies, & direct a copy each to
- Wm M Rosetti 56 Euston Sq London n w
- Thos: Dixon 15 Sunderland st. Sunderland
- Prof: Edward Dowden, Temple Rd. Winsted, Rathmines, Dublin
- Rafe Leycester, Toft, Knutsford, Country Cheshire
- Edward Carpenter, 45 Brunswick Sq. Brighton
- J A Symonds, Clifton Hill House, Bristol
- Robt Buchanan, Editor Light, London
- Alfred Tennyson, Eaton Square, London
- J Leicester Warren, 67 Onslow Sq: London s w
P S—I am not an anti-tobacconist—On the contrary have seen how important & valuable the sedative was in the extensive military hospitals of our Secession war—Still I do not smoke or chew myself—Sometimes wish I did smoke now in my old age & invalidism—but it is too late to learn—
But my brothers & all my near friends are smokers, & I am accustomed to it—live among smokers, & always carry cigars in my pocket to give special friends who prize them—