
London May 16 1886 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"

