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  Walt Whitman Esq

Whilst declicacy of sentiment keeps one back, death may make one deeply regret the vacillation which it will decide, and this [illegible] will live on to regret its want of courage

Will you write on the enclosed sheet of paper a few words that I shall treasure—my cousin Hamilton Aïdé     talked to me of you—& I have for years worshipped in distance reverence, that I cannot doubt that you will do me this little act on your part, bringing such pride & pleasure to me

Your devoted admirer Luther Munday Secretary of the Lyric Club which is the London centre of social & artistic gatherings         Give out the Ingersol telegram tonight. to Jeffrey's & Patterson