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July 9th, '99

My dear Miss Hartzell:

You dear
good child to write me again.
But dear, if you know how
very poorly your "old chappie"
is and has been since leaving
the south, you would forgive me.

I caught a very severe cold,
[ ing], north to Iowa, and had,[page cut off],
be here the first.
[Won't] it be lovely to be back in Florida again?
Do you hear from the Blackman family?
Auntie Smith is, [ north?,] the summer?

Now write me very soon, [ very soon underlined], again.

with love your friend,
Mary [...cox]

I enclose those pictures of yours and one of, [..+], self on a fishing expedition.