
First—how are you getting on? Second (like a woman's postscript) have I told you at any time that
I have been & am preparing a vol: of
Amer: poetry, up to
your Centennial, for English publication? I would like, if I may, to use as
frontispiece your head, which will not hurt your fame on the other side; & 3000 miles off will not,
I think, interfere with the appearance of the same head here with those new things which I want to use.
May I use it? Say honestly yes or no, as you feel. I do
not want to do what you might not like, whether in matter of interest or feeling.
But I can have nothing I should like so well.
I wish you were here now that the storms seem over. We have had such a spell of bad weather as I have never before been treated to by U.S.
Yours always WJ Linton