Dated 148 Charles Street, April 16, 1878. To Rev. A.P. (Alfred Porter) Putnam, Unitarian minister in Brooklyn, looking forward to his scheduled May 7 lecture to the Long Island Historical Society, and offering "The Literary and Artistic Society in London, as I Saw It, Thirty Years Ago" or, "if they prefer it, A brief paper on Nathaniel Hawthorne". One sheet, one page, in Fine condition.