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request you to consider this confi
dential, and that you regard the
song as entirely your own property,
that is if you find it at all worthy
of your notice and lastly that
you may extend to me the ut
most indulgence as to one who
feels cut off from the world of Art
by a residence in this commercial
country and who has ever remem
bered that one short interview with
you, with feelings of the deepest
interest and love for her who was
pleased to give the first words of
encouragement to a weak and
helpless infant in Art as I as
suredly then was, and as I ever yet
feel myself to be. If you should
honor this with a reply my Dear
Madam you would indeed highly fa
vor
Your humble & obt servt

C. Jerome Hopkins

Mme J L Goldschmidt