PARKE GODWIN TO TILDEN
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"Roslyn, Oct. 3d, '82.
"My dear Tilden,—I am one of the committee appointed to raise subscriptions for the Statue of Liberty to be placed on Bedloe's Island, and we propose, this fall, to go to work earnestly to raise the necessary money. I should like very much to put down your name as the first, in a good sum—and my own as the first successful applicant. Evarts, the head of our committee, has been dilatory, but there is no doubt we shall succeed. It is an important object, in which I have interested myself from the first, and am still interested. I know that applications of this kind are often made to you—and, if you have the least reluctance, just burn this up, and consider it unwritten.
"Yours truly, "Parke Godwin."