Y'rs just rec'd—I send photo of Jeff—If properly handled ("processed" is the common way, for preparing for printing on the power press) it can be made a capital picture, can be enlarged to any size. Is a good likeness & was taken eight or ten years ago—Yes I will write a few lines to go with it—I shall want some copies sent here by mail without fail. My copies of the Eng[ineering] Record with article have not come—slips also not come—I hope they will not be neglected—& will ask you if convenient to jog the editor's memory—Horace, ab't the kind mention & offer ab't my dear niece (God bless you, Horace dear boy—and God bless the dear engineers)—I do not at this moment know what to say definitely (for Jessie)—and will write you further—also ab't the sculptor—am unwell to–day—
Walt WhitmanTho' I sit up & eat my rations & have my right arm & (sort o') mentality I am paralyzed & utterly disabled here—cannot walk across the room—my respects to Worthen—show him this—