Autograph letter signed : Dublin, to [James H.] Cousins, "Tuesday" [19]05 January 24.

Declining an invitation to attend a banquet as he will be out of Dublin; saying "I'll have lots of speeches however, no modest ten minutes but solid hours of talk. However it is all in the promotion of agriculture & indirectly helps your propaganda;" saying he does not have a photo of himself but suggesting whom he might contact to get one; thanking him for going to so much trouble and adding that he might be able to get a photo made; saying "I would rather have a fancy portrait. It will be quite as good for the Yankees. Lots of hair, wild eyes and a cliff like forehead would please them; something like this [he has drawn a pen-and-ink self portrait] and I would find lots of girls writing that I was their twin soul. I got a couple of letters like that from USA already. One girl wanted to come over to claim me, but I evaded her and the faithless woman [illegible] afterwards that Philip B[o]urke Marston was her twin soul and she wrote a whole book about him telling of her & his past incarnations which ought to have been mine. Not bad verses either according to the Academy. I hope to get a twin soul who will not want to come over but worship me from a distance, so the fancy portrait would be best. Let me now what you think."