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PHRA, SURIJA Dec 8, 1893
Chicago, 8th Dec 1893
Dear Mrs. Sewall,
It is with extreme regret that I have to tell you that my wife and I cannot avail ourselves of your very cordial invitation to come and stay in your house in Indianapolis. The delay caused by the intricate formalities required by the customs and the Fair authorities have thus prevented my going anywhere except to Washington in connection with my official duties. There I can only stay two days and thence have to hasten to
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catch my steamer which leaves New York for England on the morning of the 16th [?]. This ship is the last of the best ships that will cross the ocean during the winter season. I can not express to you fully how disappointed we feel for not being enabled to come & pay you our respects as we think we ought to, besides all my plans to travel about in the U.S. have to be abandoned.
Mrs. Faulk and a gentleman from Siam have also invited us to your state.
Under such circumstances I can only hope that the pleasure of our acquaintance shall not be forgotten & no matter how far we are seperated the high regard and esteem due to you from us shall always be preserved in our minds.
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We leave here at 4 P.M. to-day and in saying good-bye to you my wife joins with me in the wish that Mr. Sewall & yourself shall enjoy every happiness & prosperity & that we might meet again in the future at no distant date.
I am, very respectfully Phra Suriya
P.S. I enclose a letter to Mrs. Faulk of Richmond Indiana whose address I could not find having packed up and shipped all my papers to New York. I would esteem it a very great favour if you will kindly post the same for me.