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FOULKE, WILLIAM DUDLEY
May 3, 1901

May 3rd 1901

My dear Mrs. Sewall

I am sure you know even without my telling you, how much I am interested in the Council and of the excellent showing indicated by your memorandum.

I am at present however engaged in a pretty hard job myself, which requires not only a good deal of time but also quite a large expenditure of money [...] the task of keeping the reform of the Civil Service not only from slipping back, but even from remaining stationery. I am in hopes of seeing a forward movement in the near future as the result of some very hard work we are doing now I have spent all of last month in Washington and this week and I feel that in view of what seems to [...] immediate in [...] of [this] [write] it, I ought to devote selling my energies & all the money I can afford to share, to that alone and it is with great regret that I have to say I do not feel able to help you -

On my return home I find Mrs. Foulke has fallen back again in health. She has received your letters but is not well enough to answer them personally at present and not to undertake the

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