
If I may call you so—I wish you peace and joy, and many more years in which to
know and feel how great is your fame. We have seldom met, and you will hardly remember
me; but I recall pleasant hours with you in this city, just after the war, and I not
long since came to see you in your home, with Mrs. Coues, among the many visitors who
wish to do you homage.—Some of your published expressions lead me to think you
may be in sympathy with the spirit
of a little tract which I send, and which please accept. Should you find time to
glance at it, and find any reflection of thoughts that have passed across the mirror
of your own mind, I should be proud and pleased.

