TILDEN TO MISS MORSE AND MISS DALY
"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."