
I was made happy a few days since by the receipt of your picture
I liked the familiar hat, but should have preferred the handsome brow.
I should have replied immediately but for expecting my own picture from Boston a copy of which I have the pleasure to enclose.
Mr Blood wrote me that he invited you here this month—for which I am glad—and only hope you will come.


It is not impossible that the future Mrs Whitman lives in this latitude—why dont you come so as to join us in our trip to Saratoga about the first proximo?
My love to Mrs Benedict!
Yours Sincerely Marie Blood. Walt Whitman