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Well Edith it was like news from the dead when last Tuesday I recieved a letter from Chas. Miner it is exactly as follows.

My dear girl.

[Giving?] to fact that I have not been able to come in contact with you or find any one that has done so I take it upon my self to write you this letter in the vain hope that it will enable me to satisfy my morbid inquisitions s.

What it the cause of your non-appearance in the last few months? have you been ill? or have you left the City?