
I sent you today by express the picture of Lord Bacon by Vandyck I mentioned some
little time ago. I hope you will like it. It is the only
picture of Bacon I ever saw without the hat. I felt surer than ever when I saw that
Olympian forehead that this was the author of Shakespeare.
I wish the picture was a steel engraving, instead of wood, but it was the only one eligible.
Give it a place on your wall.
The Manhattan is going to be revived shortly and is to
print my paper, called "Hamlet's Note-Book", the one giving R. G. White a going
over, of which I wrote you some time ago. The editor
writes me a letter so unqualified in panegyric of the article that I am astonished.
I am just having a temporary respite from the worst spell of work ever laid on me. Soon it will begin again.
Faithfully, W.D. O'Connor. Walt Whitman.