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  Mr. Walt Whitman. Dear Sir:

Your books were returned yesterday. The Web. Dict. and the Auth. Dict. will send as soon as we can. Nothing new to add to what has been already said as to acc't. Inclosed find statement.

The "Liberals" do not, as a rule, take the slightest trouble to sustain a publishing house of this character as they ought. I am left to fight the battle single-handed. There is sufficient coming to me to tide me over till times change, but they do not pay. Many in the trade let their acc'ts stand for years–they in the meantime doing a good business.

Am in receipt of orders for   your books occasionally from the trade; but as the orders are not accompanied by cash, we cannot send to you for the books. What shall we do with such orders? Have in our hands now an order which was sent to J. S. Redfield, by A. L. Bancroft, San Francisco (Publishers and Booksellers.) as follows:

1 Leaves of Grass, to be sent to F. S. Richards, Ogden, Utah, by mail.

3 Leaves of Grass, to be sent to Appleton & Co., to pack for A.L.B. & Co., All of above to be billed to A.L.B. & Co.

Probably the 3 Leaves should now be sent to A.L.B. & Co., in care of Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. Booksellers, Grant St. N.Y. to pack for A.L.B. & Co.

Please instruct us what to do with any orders we receive for your books.

Yours sincerely, C. P. Somerby
  [STATEMENT.] Mr. Walt Whitman To CHAS. P. SOMERBY, Dr. PUBLISHER AND IMPORTER, 139 EIGHTH STREET, A few doors east of Broadway. Somerby's acc't May, '76 he owes me $215

due me—May. 1876
Terms, Net Cash.
1875
May 8 To mdse 34
Sept. 25 50
Oct. 5 Cash 10 00
1876 8 mdse 99 23
May 6 " 36 16 $146 23
1874 Cr.
Jan 5 By mdse 46 58
Feb. 3 " 314 82 $361 40
Bal. $215.17