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  Walt Whitman Esq.; Dear Sir:

An entertainment, to be known as "St. Valentine's Night," will be given in this city on February 14. 1891, for the benefit of the Aguilar Free Library, a brief account of which is inclosed herewith. I am getting up an Author's Valentine, which will be sold for the benefit of the Library, to consist of literary excerpts in the handwriting of the authors and subscribed by them. In the hope that the Library's good work in disseminating the best literature among the poor of this city, will appeal to your sympathies, I beg to ask for a literary contribution from yourself, for such would greatly increase the value of the "Valentine."

Among those who have contributed thus far are Messrs. George William Curtis, Richard Watson Gilder, "Mark Twain," Brander Matthews, E.C. Stedman, H.H. Boyesen, Edward Bellamy, Mrs. Helen Campbell, and Mrs. Helen Gray Cone.

Kindly return paper with pasteboard.

Yours respectfully (Mrs.) Annie Nathan Meyer. for Com. for H.N.