Inclosed please find $5[.]00 for which please send me latest edition of your poems with autograph ($3[.]00 & 'specimen days & collect ($2[.]00)
Very truly yours, Pliny B. Smith loc_tb.00634.jpgCorrespondent:
Pliny B. Smith (1850–1912) was a lawyer in Chicago for more than forty years. He
served as the counsel for the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad for twelve years,
from 1883 to 1895. He was also a member of the Chicago Public Library Board from
1887 to 1893. For more on Smith, see "In Memoriam: Pliny B. Smith," In Memory of
the Members of the Chicago Bar Association who have died during the year 1911–1912 [Chicago:
Printed for the Association], 1912).