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Occidental Hotel

Monday 3 P.M.

June 26th/93

My dear sorrowing Friend

I hurried to see
Charlie this morning
to learn how you were
for your crushing
grief has been
uppermost on my heart,
he told me of the hard
day you passed
yesterday. Oh! how weak
& powerless are words
to convey in any measure
the expression of sympathy
& sorrow which weighs
heavily upon the heart