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Ralph Waldo Emerson Collection, Accession 6248-z, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Purchase 1995 September 20
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declining an invitation to speak at their meeting on the day requested as he has been invited to the wedding of his friend, Miss Alice Forbes , but volunteering to speak any other day of the same week.