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To Mrs Lilly M. Spencer, No 602 Broadway NYC
Poet

(Sunnywild)
Watkins, Schuyler Co., N.Y.
April 27th, 1868.

Madam,
I must ask your indulgence in thus assuming liberty of addressing you, 'though I may only plead in apology that for many years I have noticed with especial interest, as well as with delighted admiration, the very many and exquisitely beautiful contributions which your rare genius has given to the domain or Art — and particularly in the fascinating and elevated department where your unequaled pencil has delineated upon the glowing canvas the sweet and lovely creations of ideal thought and sentiment. Your noble and [[unin?]]

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