Letter from Maurice Thompson to May Wright Sewall.

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THOMPSON, MAURICE APR 25 1899

Sherwood Place Crawfordsville Indiana

My dear Mrs. Sewall -

To-day I sent a curt wire message to you saying that business engagements would prevent Mrs. Thompson and me from accepting your kind invitation to receive with you on the afternoon before my lecture. You positively must not take so blunt a statement as meaning an ungracious declination. We are both regretting very much the impossibility of going to your home

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and enjoying to the full your generous hospitality and meeting your friends. When we see you we are going to tell you how we have both been ill, Mrs. Thompson with pneumonia and I with glorious grippe, and so are both a trifle anxious about health. By the time that I have got through with some affairs we shall be ready to nest until I have to go to the platform. By about four o'clock I shall hope to have shaken off business

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and then it would be very pleasant to us to see you; but again this must not demand any troublesome attention. I mean troublesome to you, and it will be quite necessary for us to avoid both reception and luncheon.

I can't get this down on paper decently; but when you see us you'll understand.

We join in rephrasing our regrets.

Yours most sincerely Maurice Thompson

25 April 1899

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