I send you a little token of my esteem as a birthday present. I am very glad you are again able to write in your old style a little. I hope we may yet have a second volume of Leaves of Grass from you if such is compatible with 69 years.
I wish you many happy returns of this day.
Your friend F.S. RymanWill you please let me know if this reaches you safely.
loc.03558.002_large.jpg F.S. RymanCorrespondent:
This might be Shakespeare scholar
F. S. Ryman, who likely worked for the Boston Public Library. Ryman published,
for instance, on Ignatius Loyola Donnelly's controversial book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays
(1888), which argued that Shakespeare's works were written by Francis Bacon.
Whitman and his disciples took great interest in Donnelly's book.