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Dr. George W. Quick, President,
Rotary Club of Greenville,
Greenville, Carolina.

My dear Dr. Quick:-

I duly had the pleasure of receiving your kind letter of the eleventh of November, with regard to your desire of procuring a stone from this country or this city.

I am very pleased to inform you that I have procured for you a stone which I personally, together with the president of the Rotary Club of Barranquilla, loosened from a small hill located opposite [?]the villa of San Pedro Alejandrino, the scene of the death of our Liberator, General Simon Bolivar, on the seventeenth of December, 1830, whose centennial has just been celebrated.

For this celebration, Dr. Rodriguez Diago visited us to represent his club, and it was a great pleasure for both of us to tear out this stone on the very seventeenth of December, 1930, to send it to you.

The reason for my not having sent the stone yet is that it has been my intention to get hold of some one capable of engraving on it some inscription to show its origin. But unfortunately this has not been easy.

Excuse my delay in answering your letter, which deserved my best attention from the earliest moment.

All the members of our club thank you for your good wishes, and I personally am quite grateful for the opportunity you have given me to be useful to you in any way, even though it be in so small a matter.

With kindest regards, I am,

Yours in Rotary,

(Signed)

Jose G. Sanchez, Pres.

[Black and white photograph of eight men in business attire]
The hundredth anniversary of the death of Simon Bolivar, South American liberator, was observed by the Prague, Czechoslovakia, Rotary Club, with Don Juan Abel Montilla, minister from Venezuela (fourth from left, as the honor guest. To his right is Dr. Milan Janu, president of the Rotary Club of Prague.