We wish to publish your portrait in Harper's Weekly. Will you please say where we can get a good recent photograph? We would prefer one without the hat.
Yours truly, Charles Parsons Sup't Art Dep't, for E.D.W. Walt Whitman, Esqre. loc.02270.002_large.jpg loc.02270.003_large.jpg loc.02270.004_large.jpgCorrespondent:
Charles Parsons
(1820–1910) was the art superintendent of Harper & Brothers periodical
publications.