Tom, I wish you would say to Frank the pictures of Elias Hicks and my own bust are entirely satisfactory & I want to see what [I] can do to print them, so as each to illustrate in the Nov.Boughs—one of each—Of course some one—the proper person (is it not Phila or N Y?)—will have to print 1000 picts—will have to be done for ab't 3ct each—I am having a bad day—had about a bad night—
—As you said—Bennett of NY has sent the check to me back—
Love to you & Mrs H & the childer— Walt Whitman