HON. MARSHALL P. WILDER. 



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Letter of the Hon. Frederic IV. Lincoln, Ex-Mayor of 

 the City of Boston. 



Boston, Sept. 17, 1883. 



Dear Sir, — I regret that an engagement on the 

 afternoon of the 2 2d inst. will prevent my acceptance 

 of the courteous invitation to be present at the com- 

 plimentary dinner to the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder. 



His long and valued services to this community 

 certainly deserve recognition. In everything that 

 marks the citizen and the man his career has been 

 pre-eminent, and his friends do well to unite in a 

 social and in somewhat semi-official way, in con- 

 gratulations upon the happy recurrence of the eighty- 

 fifth anniversary of his birth. 



Will you please tender to Mr. Wilder my personal 

 congratulations, and believe me to be 



Yours very truly, 



F. W. Lincoln. 



Chas. H. B. Breck, Esq, 



Letter of the Rev. James H. Means, D. D. 



Dorchester, Sept. 13, 1883. 



My Dear Sir, — I have had the honor of receiving: 

 your invitation to the celebration of the eighty-fifth 

 anniversary of the birth of my parishioner and friend, 



