"SATURDAY MORNING, _April 4, 1874_.
"DEAR YOUNG LADIES,--Miss Daly, when I had the pleasure to see
her--where her like are not always found--at home, suggested to me to
join in some little floral tribute to Nilsson before the close of her
present engagement. With my usual docility I acquiesced, and that is
all which has come of it. I have no guidance, and am in danger of being
a delinquent.
"To-day is the last, if not the best occasion. But the rosebuds would
spring as fitly out of the rugged cleft of the storm-beaten oak as
from me, while they would form naturally and come gracefully from the
representatives of the springtime of womanhood.
"Shall I mention another circumstance in a _postscriptum_?
"I am suddenly called to attend an auction sale of a railroad in Jersey
City at 2 to-day, and may not see the Academy.
"I hope, therefore, you will undertake the disposal of what accompanies
this note.
"Very truly,
"Yours, &c.,
"S. J. TILDEN."
"_Miss Morse and Miss Daly._
"_Sat. Morn., April 4, 1874._"