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  Dear Friend Walt Whitman

I have neglected to answer your last letter so long that I am most ashamed to write to you now but I know that you will excuse my seeming neglect for I have been very busy for the past three months.

This letter will be handed to you by our esteemed Friend Miss Kate C Riley of Washington who I would like to introduce to you. We made her   acquaintance at the same time we did yours and under the Same circumstances performing debts of kindness to Sick & wounded Soldiers. She has made us several flying visits this summer & I have taken the liberty of sending you this letter of Introduction by her.

She can talk to you about David & myself from having seen us lately.

My little baby Walt is well & Bright as a dollar. with Love to yourself I will close for the present.

Please write Soon

your Friend B. H. Wilson.       Benton Wilson Oct. 6 1868 (Rec'd Dec. 10)