
The artist Reich is now completing a large etching of you which is to appear in folio with portraits of other poets and writers in a volume to be entitled "American Authors." For this work I am expected to contribute the letter press. As it is proposed that each singer should have his favorite poem appear in fac-simile, will you at your leisure, kindly make a mss. copy of your favorite, or a portion of it, for the purpose mentioned? For the month of July my address is as above. After July no 15, East Seventy-fourth St, New York City. Mr Reich will soon send you a proof of your portrait for which you may remember that you him a short sitting last winter
Were you pleased with the article and portrait of yourself which appeared in the sixth volume of my "Cyclopaedia
of American Biography, issued by the Appletons? If you did not happen to have seen the work, I will take pleasure in sending you the
sketch and illustration on my return to the city next month. Believe me with best wishes,