Feinberg/Whitman
Box 11 Folder 24
General Correspondence
Ingpen, Roger E.
Oct. 16, 18903 Pountney Road
Lavender Hill S.W.
London, England
October 16th '90
My dear Sir
   The only excuse that I can
offer for trespassing upon your privacy &
your time, is the great admiration I
hold both for your name & your works
   I am having printed a volume 
of verses, and as I wish to show-
though inadequately I know- my gratitude
to the illustrious author of 'Leave of
Grass' I am writing to beg your acceptance
of the dedication. I am quite aware
that my work at its best, can be but
an unfitting sequence to your name
but my tribute is not the less
sincere.
 The volume is to be
quite a slender one, & to consist
for the most part of pieces whichhave appeared from time to time
in English periodicals. I would have
enclosed proof sheets - to enable you
to judge of their merit, but I have
not received any from the printer yet &
I do not wish to delay publication longer than necessary.
Believe me
Yours very truly
Roger E. Ingpen

Walt Whitman Esq

LONDON S.W.        S.W.
3 
OC 12                       30
90 

Walt Whitman Esq
Camden
New Jersey 
United States of AmericaCAMDEN,N.J. 
OCT 
27 
6AM 
1890 
REC'D.

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