Will you permit me to offer you, as emphasizing my appreciation of the melodies you
have sung for the lovers of poesy, a golden fluid which symbolizes the health of
pray that Providence will vouchsafe you for many years to come, as is this wine of
Hungary to the lovers of nectar, so are your nuggets of imagery to the devotees of
genius, and, in tendering it to you, I beg you will consider that its every drop
distills something of the loc.03555.002_large.jpg
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appreciation your exceptional creations have kindled in my breast. With assurances
of fervent regard
Correspondent:
Lorenz Reich
(1848–1931) was an importer of Hungarian wine in New York City. He made a
practice of sending complimentary cases of wine to individuals he admired. The
archive of letters of thanks at the New York Historical Society includes
appreciative replies from Robert Browning, Samuel Clemens, Grover Cleveland,
Ulysses S. Grant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and John
Greenleaf Whittier, among others.