Charley, you would do me a special service if you could get & send me a good photo (or other picture) of Father Taylor, the old sailor preacher. I want it to be engraved for a magazine article—Picture will be returned—also find out for me when Father T died—No particular hurry—but hope you will be able to help me soon as convenient—
I have had a bad spell nearly all the year—till ab't a month ago—when things turn'd favorably, & I am now about as usual with me—
With good old remembrances— Walt Whitman