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  Walt. Whitman, Esq.

At a meeting of the Board of Managers of the Amer. Inst. Natl. Exhibition held this evening the following resolution was unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That the Board of Managers of the American Institute respectfully tender their earnest thanks to Walt. Whitman for the magnificent original Poem with which he favored them at the opening of their National Industrial Exhibition in New York Sept 7th 1871.

Respectfully yours, John W. Chambers Secy John W. Chambers