
Maugre yr wholesome advice, (exc. that I put in a page on you & Hugo—parallelism of yr poetic-technique en-avant freshness &c) I have done gone & published my essay "The Poet as a Craftsman."
I set up every stick of it mesilf indade, & corrected my proofs (wh. I'll have you know) were pronounced excellent by the other typos. You didn't know I had learned yr boyhood's art, did you? Well, I have learned just enough to set up this & my poems (Heaven bless the mark—"poems" quotha,—I wd'nt have you ever see 'em for a Scotch haggis, or a shining gold piece—). I pub. an edition of six copies of the poems! Of this monograph I struck off 300 copies. McKay (the "publisher") (lucus a non) has 225. You may tell him to let you have all you want at 12½ cts; retail price 25


I do hope you are feeling well, & pray fervently you may weather the winter very comfortably. How's the pony?
I am going to send copies of "Poet as Crafts " to Bucke, Swinburne, Tennyson, Rossetti, O'Connor, Burroughs, Dowden (what's his address?) Gilder, & O'Reilly. These of yr personal friends I mention so you need not send duplicates. I am sick of the pamphlet by this time; but I believe in it still very thoroughly, & hope it will elicit new thoughts & better, & be a bugle-note for reform.
affectionately, as ever W. S. KennedyI read of the English gift of $500, with joy


