Your letter arrived some little time ago, while we were in the confusion of getting located at the Sea Side, &Ⓐemendation it was mis-laid, lost in fact, for I have never been able to find it since. This will explain my not using your initials, they have escaped me.

It was a most pleasant compliment I assure you to be noticed by the young folks of my native place in such language as that, in which their resolution was framed, &Ⓐemendation I beg to transmit to them through you, my thanks &Ⓐemendation appreciation.

I have mailed an order to my publisher to send a copy of each of my books to the “Florida Literary Association,” &Ⓐemendation in this present letter I will enclose check for $25 for the association.

I refrain from apologizing for the meagerness of the amount, for the calls on me are so frequent that I am obliged to go warily, &Ⓐemendation impose upon myself an economy which goes a good deal against my grain.

I also beg to enclose a page of “Good Literature,"Ⓐemendation a weekly journal published in New York City at 50 cts. per year, devoted to advertising some astonishingly cheap books. I thought the association might think it worth while to know of such a concern. The books are worth much more than the price asked for them.

With many thanks to you &Ⓐemendation the Association,