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  Autograph of Whitman— (see over) CE Dear Mr Whitman

My father and other members of the "Society of Old Brooklynites" are anxious to receive a line, or to ask from you, to read at their annual dinner on the 9th prox. and have requested me to write to you, and beg the favor. I am afraid from what I have noticed in the papers, that you have not been in good health of late, but I trust that you are now strong again, and able to give the old friends of your youth a line from your gifted pen, on this, as well as many future annual reunions.

With sincere regards Very Respectfully Yours John W. Wiggins Jr.