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1864. Alexander Gardner, Washington, D.C. Saunders #22. Courtesy Alderman Library, University of Virginia. Whitman referred to this as "one of several portraits which William O'Connor called the Hugo portraits," and worried that it was too severe: "do you detect a scowl, a frown, anything bordering on it?" Looking at it another time, Whitman mused, "That was my prime--that was the period of my power--of endurance: the period in which I was most alive." |
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