
I have poems by Thos Moore, letters and poems by Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Sir W. Scott, Thackeray, Campbell, Montgomery, Bulwer Lytton, Kotzebue, Beranger, Lamartine and many, many more written and signed by their own hands, but I have nothing in the autograph of that author whose name is written Walt Whitman—Is it asking too much, if you are sufficiently recovered from illness, to request a few lines with your signature to be placed in such good company?
With respects Truly Minnie Vincent Care of M.M. Jones