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Lamar, Mo
Dec. 19 190 [1 ?]
Mrs Leland Stanford
San Francisco, Cal.
Dear Mrs. Stanford-
I have
thought every since I
learned to write that
I would sometime
write you a letter, but
I expect you get so
many letters from
strangers that you will
not even read this
I am a little boy twelve
years old my name
is Leland Stanford Bailey
My Papa was an