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  Mr. Walt Whitman, My dear Sir:

I am preparing a series of letters for the above newspapers on How to Reach Three Score and Ten Years of Age and I hope to have information on this subject from Hon. W.E. Gladstone, Hon. Ferdinand de Lesseps, Hon. George Bancroft, Hon. Hamilton Fish, Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Hon. John G. Whittier and other distinguished octogenarians. Will you please let me know:

As to what you attribute your good health through life.

As to your daily habits of work and exercise, sleep and diet.

 

Also what advice would you give to the young men of the day who wish to follow in your footsteps.

I would be glad to hear whether you are still working and also whether you believe in the use of spirituous liquors, tobacco, tea or coffee.

Also do you believe that marriage conduces to long life, and anything else you may wish to add of advice to a young man who wishes to reach three score and ten and pack the whole of his years with good work as you have done.

During what years did you do your best work and how long in your opinion should be the working life of man.

I am Very respectfully yours, Frank G Carpenter.

I inclose​ enclose​ stamped envelope for reply.