Am sure it will give you pleasure to know that I am engaged—to Miss Alexander of N.Y. Same name but of course, no relation—yet.
Have been looking for your return to New York. When do you come?
Sincerely yours John W. Alexander loc_es.00025.jpgCorrespondent:
John White Alexander
(1856–1915) was an American painter and illustrator, well known for his
portraits of famous Americans including Oliver Wendell Holmes and John
Burroughs, as well as Whitman, whose portrait he worked on from 1886 to
1889.