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  My dear, venerable friend

It was my intention to have noted my recent call upon you, with my expressions of the great pleasure that visit had given me, but I have been prevented doing so, from having taken cold in my eyes, subjecting me to a sort of vagabond life for the past week.

To meet one of whom I had heard & read so much, I feared was denied me, as I had never received any acknowledgment of the letter I sent you some three years since.

You think you never received     such a communication.

I wrote you at the time of Mr Farnam of New Haven commencing the Whitman genealogy, hoping I could have the pleasure of sending to him so worthy & honorable a branch of the old tree, as yourself would be—

Perhaps when the weather becomes more spring like, I will bring the volumes over to you to examine & you will be able to point out your position

You would like to see it, would you not?

Let me thank you for the very kind gift of your photos. I greatly prize them, doubly so, as containing your autograph.

Do you often see Mr Childs I hear he is a friend, & a good friend of yours?

 

I fear I may weary you, if I say more. I should be delighted to have you acknowledge this note, if you feel, it will not be a task—

Accept dear friend, my hearty best wishes that your life may be prolonged & your declining years made comfortable to the close.

With sincere regard I am respectfully Lavinia F. Whitman 1740 N. 15th st.Phila

My [illegible] father was John F. Watson author of that inimitable work, "Annals of Phila in the Olden Time."

Did you know him?