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DEDICATION.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept., 1868.
My dear Mr. Prentice:
I owe you many of those debts that one friend can only pay another (and never pay in full) out of his heart; please to think my dedication of this book an acknowledgment of them. The poems in the present volume have, with a few exceptions, been under cover (and under fire, too, for that matter,) before; but they are here massed, so to speak —“for a general review, doubtless,” will you say?
Many of the pieces in this collection are suggestive to me of the hours when I was associated with you in a companionship which must always seem very dear to me when I recall it: this is a merit which I may find in them without blame, I am sure.
With many wishes for your health and happiness, I remain,
Very affectionately,
Your friend,
J. J. P.
Geo. D. Prentice, Esq.,
Louisville, Ky.
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