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  Walt Whitman Esq. Dear Sir.

May I ask the favour of one of your volumes of Poems direct from yourself. I should be charmed to have some little souvenir from an American so good as you.

I should very much wish to know from you what stage play and what actor and actress you you remember that has left the most pleasing impression on your mind. Which of Shakesperes     great plays do you find the most entertaing reading?

Have you not in some of your poems mentioned some of Americas great players?

Did you know Boyle O'Reilly personally, had he not a grand mind? Of him it can be well said, "not deep the poet sees, but wide."

Will you pardon all these questions from an Irish admirer who sends you his very sincere best wishes for your health. I will highly prize any words written by you to yours

very sincerely, Robt M. Sillard