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TARKINGTON, BOOTH 598 N. Penn St April 25, 1895
Mrs. May Wright Sewall; 343 N. Penn. St.: City
My dear Mrs. Sewall.I thank you very much for the honor your request does me. If puffs me up exceedingly and adds to my dignity, so that regret the more that it will be impossible for me to become a [?] on the present occasion. My lamentable habits prevent; I have taken to working in the night and my [?]
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for retiring is so shortly before the time set for the contest that should I arise and opine, m decision would be sorry indeed.
If I had known a week or so ago, I should have gone into training and gradually shifted my rest.
You have all my gratitude for your kind thought of me.
Very sincerely yours, Newton Booth Tarkington