
What can you do with this photo?—I send herewith the size it should come in—the page of November Boughs—I think of it for frontispiece, if it should suit—the whole picture as in photo—made smaller of course—your own taste & judgment to arrange it, (Knowing the size it is to come in & what I want for &c—the inscription under printed "Walt Whitman in his 70th year")—
I leave mainly the carrying it out to your aformentioned taste & judgment—you can confer &c with my friend Horace Traubel, the bearer—just the same as you would with me personally—
Walt Whitman Written Aug 6th, '88—see "notes" that date—H.L.T.