I have received the word which you were thoughtful and kind enough to send me,
and with it your
expression of a desire that I should be present at the dinner1 which your appreciative fellow
countrymen are about to give you in commemoration of your birthday.2 I thank you,
my dear sir, for your remembrance, and shall cherish it as long as I shall live.
I am loc_zs.00182.jpg a much over worked
young man, (though only "starting out in life," as compared with your years of fruitful effort),
and cannot go to Camden much as I would wish to.
When I say that I respect you, you will understand me; were I to say that I love you, I would only speak the truth
Yours is a great, big personality, and your hall-mark on English verse will endure as long as the language itself.
Believe me, Yours very sincerely, Julius Chambers.Correspondent:
Julius Chambers (1850–1920)
was an American author, investigative journalist, and travel writer. After
working as a reporter for the New York Tribune, he became
the editor of the New York Herald and, later, the New York World.