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  Walt, Whitman, Esq., Camden, N.J.: My Dear Sir:—

I shall not flatter myself that you retain any knowledge or the faintest recollection of who I am, but last evening I chanced to read an interview reported in some News-paper, which said you spent considerable time in writing to your friends, intimating that you enjoyed doing this.—While reading this paragraph, an army (and no small army) of reminiscences were called to my mind, prominent among which was the fact that YOU used to greet me so cordially when I happened to meet you which I most frequently did at the junction of Penn. Ave. & 7th. Strs., in Washington, D.C., in about 1866 and 1868.—I was then employed in the Treasury Dept., at Washington.

After my most cordial regards allow me to say that I should feel SO proud to receive your autograph at the bottom of a few words written by your hand; coming from YOU, I am assured they can be none but bright and kind words.

Your Old Friend, and Admirer, Val. Stuart Redden.

  My Sister attained quite a reputation about that time as a writer for News-papers under the nom-de-plume of "Howard Glyndon." She also was in and wrote from Washington at that time.

V.S. Redden