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[Text in top right] St Louis
June 4th, 1895

Miss Edith Hartgell

Dear friend:

Your telegram of
last Thursday did not reach
us till Saturday and then
it came in the mail from
the city. I found it here when
I reached home about two o'clock
and could not answer at once,
as the wire to the city was not
working. I went with Uncle
Tom in the evening to take his
trunk to the Union Station as