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[stamp: ACK'D JUN 19 1918 [?]]

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Dear Tumulty:

I would be very much obliged if you would
acknowledge this letter for me, inasmuch as I do
not know the writer, and if you would reply in the
following sense, namely, that we doubt very
seriously the advisability of private undertakings
of this sort until, at any rate, there is some more
settled condition of affairs in Russia, because
the entrance of strangers there now not only ex-
poses them to certain dangers but is likely to make
the people suspicious of all sorts of outside in-
fluence being attempted.

The President.
C.L.S.

[illegible handwritten note]

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