"PHILADELPHIA, _Dec. 19, 1860_.
"DEAR SIR,--Last evening, at Mrs. Gilpin's, I met Mr. Ogden, who kindly
gave me a copy of your letter to Mr. Kent.[30] It is so well calculated
to do good that I want to obtain copies for distribution. Can you have
your publisher send me fifty, with a line stating the cost, which I
will remit? Years, perhaps, of the dreary labor of reconstruction of
our empire are before us, and it will not do for us who foresaw the
storm to desert the wreck while a single plank of hope remains.
"I send you a copy of a pamphlet by a Mr. John R. White, of this city.
It has some good points.
"Very Respectfully,
"TOWNSEND WARD,
"204 S. 5th St.
"_Samuel J. Tilden, Esq._"