_October 28, 1895._
_My dear Mr. McClure_:--I think you will be interested to know
that in showing the early portrait of Lincoln to two young
people of intelligence, each of them asked if it were not a
portrait of Waldo Emerson. If you will compare the likeness
with that of Emerson in Appleton's "Cyclopedia of Biography,"
I think you will like to print copies of the two likenesses
side by side.
Yours truly,