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  My Dear Friend—

If I may call you so—I wish you peace and joy, and many more years in which to know and feel how great is your fame. We have seldom met, and you will hardly remember me; but I recall pleasant hours with you in this city, just after the war, and I not long since came to see you in your home, with Mrs. Coues, among the many visitors who wish to do you homage.—Some of your published expressions lead me to think you may be in sympathy with the spirit       of a little tract which I send, and which please accept. Should you find time to glance at it, and find any reflection of thoughts that have passed across the mirror of your own mind, I should be proud and pleased.

Your sincere friend, Elliott Coues. Walt Whitman, Camden, N.J.   see notes July 27 1891