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  Dear W. Whitman:

Nearly a month ago I sent you a request to vote (as a member of The Critic's Academy of Forty Immortals) for nine successors to the members deceased since our leaders elected the Forty in 1884. I sent a list of about 65 unsuccessful candidates (or rather nominees) who were voted for at that time, & asked you to pick out nine of them or to name nine others if you preferred. Nearly all  the "Academicians" have sent in their votes; but I don't want to announce the result of the thing till I hear from you. If you have lost the printed slip, I can send you another. We shall not tell how any individual voted, but only how they all voted—the net result. I hope you'll not disappoint us.

Sincerely yours, J. B. Gilder