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  Walt. Whitman Esq. Dear Sir,

Aware of the kindly and generous interest you take in the welfare and progress of the American Institute, the Board of Managers of the 40th National Industrial Exhibition have instructed us to solicit of you the honor of a poem on the occasion of its opening, Sept. 7, 1871—with the privilege of furnishing proofs of the same to the Metropolitan Press for publication with the other proceedings.

With profound respect, George Peyton Chas. E. Burd James B. Young Com. on Invitations

We shall be most happy, of course, to pay traveling expenses & entertain you hospitably, and pay $100 in addition, if agreeable to you, so as in some sort to make amends for your trouble.