
JAMES M. SCOVEL,
No. 113 ARCH STREET
Camden, N. J., Fey 7 1879 My Dear Walt
Friday has come & gone—& no report as the dinner with the author of the, I fear, (abortive?) "Bride of Gettysburg"
I wrote him that unless I wrote au contraire we wd be there on Gods Holy Day. "Watchman tell us of the night"—war worn Veteran!—who like a true soldier wear your "wounds & Honors a' front", speak to me!
Badinage aside, you cheered me, lustily, over that milk punch. Thy talk was like a crisp Healthful winters day—
Thine Tenderly, James