
Please pardon my intrusion but as I am a great lover of literature especially poetry, I have always taken great interest in you and your poems and other writings and am a great admirer of them,
I have often looked for your photograph but have never succeeded in obtaining one and have no definite idea of your features. I have been much disappointed in not securing your photograph and concluded that, perhaps, I could procure one of you Have you a photograph of yourself which you could send me?
I enclose you 25¢ for photograph if you have one which you are willing to send to me.

I shall anxiously await your reply and hope that you will be so kind as to send a photograph I have long desired your opinion on several matters in literature but will only ask you one.
I have read and studied Mr. Joaquin Miller's poems "Songe Songs of the Sierras" and have been greatly impressed by them. I am very curious to learn your opinion of him, and his poems. I shall be greatly indebted to you if you will give me an opinion of Mr. Miller's muse If you will be so kind as to answer my critical questions I will thank you very much.
Will you if you are not occupied please write me with your own hand a copy of one of
your poems? I do not wish to be a nuisance and a bore to you and if you have not plenty of
leisure
I will not ask you for the poem I have poems in the handwriting of Bryant,
Longfellow, Holmes and Whittier
and with yours if you send it I will complete the series of the
greatest American poets. If you do not wish to answer I
will not be greatly surprised for I presume you are nearly bored to death by
"autograph fiends" but I write you as a lover of literature and am not to be
classed with the "fiends" in any sense.
With best wishes for your health and prosperity
I am always your friend and admirer Bayard Wyman Perry, Ohio