"My dear Tilden,--I have been invited by the present Common Council to present on the 14th inst. to the family of Horace Greeley an illuminated album ordered by their predecessors. As you were intimately acquainted with him, and know a good deal more of his history and character which it may be appropriate to refer to in presenting the testimonial, you are able to embody them in an address to accompany the presentation much better than myself, and I hope you will find time to prepare it. "In doing so you may say for me that I had no personal acquaintance with him, never spoke to him but once at a little sociable at Doct. Bostwick's 25 years ago, had no political relations or affinities with him, but recognize in the general esteem in which he was held by a large portion of the community for so long a time as an honest journalist, that a more intimate acquaintance might have found us in closer relationship than probably either of us felt ourselves called upon to acknowledge. I will send for it on Monday morning at your house, as I know you will take the little trouble it will occasion you to oblige me. "Yours truly, "W. F. HAVEMEYER." "_To S. J. Tilden, Esq._" 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._" WHEELER H. PECKHAM TO TILDEN "18 WALL ST., _Mar. 9th, 1874_. "MY DEAR SIR,--I have yours of 7th, in all of which I acquiesce except the following sentence: 'You are full of your own business, and so are not able to meditate beforehand what you should do.' "Now, I am full of my own business, but this is part of my business, and so long as I have anything to do with it shall and does receive all the '_meditation_' that I can conceive may be of advantage to it.