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  Dear Walt:

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.