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  My dear, dear friend

I am so charmed with the account, in to days Press, of Sir Edwin Arnolds interview with you, that I must obey the impulse to write about it, & to congratulate you, upon having, & so justly deserving, the high esteem of such news, & this after your early many conflicts—Indeed it is   fascinating to me to study such a life as yours has been—The New York Herald & Recorder of Sunday last contain as I suppose you know, long articles about your life full of disappointments & mean treatment, now culminating in such honors & appreciation, as few of our authors or poets have reached—

Oh, what exquisite happiness it would have given me to be present yesterday & witnessed your interview—to see such a gush of affection   between two congenial, noble men

I myself feel honored to have known you & proudly regard you, as one of my childrens names & a member of the Whitman family, whom my noble, grand, old father-in-law would have dearly loved—I wish you could have known each other—

I am going to make another attempt very soon to see you—May you be "good for fifteen years more"

With great respect & affection Lavinia F Whitman   Lavinia Whitman