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If you have honored me with a peep into my past
you have presumed that I am notorious for notes
explanatory, and it may be, notes in [ ?]. I have
just renewed my acquaintance with Jim [?] Redfield's
very next [ ?] of your children of [ ?]
years, and for the fourth time have fallen in love
with your Fanny though she
"was younger once, than she is now, and
Fanny being notable, I desire to annotate her.
Will you oblige me by informing me in what year
she was born in your "imagination"? I do not
not wish you to
"get yourself in trouble by revealing
A secret of this sort"
only tell me the date of the poem.
I am a Knickerbocker, "born out of [ ?] - Dutch
to the core, but a [ ?] of the city only 13, 14 years
thru a man alluded to in Fanny whose [ ?] I cannot
"locate." Well you have the Kinders to inform me who
the following named gentlemen were (or are, if they are
living?) Lynch [ ?] xxlll, Bristed 25, Pell 39, Bogart 49,
Gautin 52 (crossed out 110), Miller Pell & Dr. Graham 61
McIntyre 64, Mergo Windown 66, John McCourt 102,
Eastburn's rooms 145.
I know this, from a stranger, who has pressed your
hand but once, (in Harpers a few months ago), is making
very free, and is asking a great deal from [ ?]
and [ ?], [ ? heat.] I
plead in excuse, my love for Fanny, and "the way
I have" of making marginal notes in my library books,
when the subject warrants it. I shall feel grateful to
you for a response to this.