"_January 2, 1883._
"DEAR MRS. LOWELL,--I have received your note containing
some account of the subscriptions for the Charity Organization
Society.
"Herewith is the speech which I promised to send.
"My subscription, which was to be paid after the beginning of the
New Year, will be ready whenever you may come, in person, to collect
it. Since almost seven years elapsed without my having the pleasure
to see you, I do not like to throw away this occasion.
"Very truly yours,
"S. J. TILDEN.
"_Mrs. J. S. Lowell._"