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[ink drawing of Hotel upper left corner]

Avenue des Champs Élysées

Hôtel d' Albe

Paris May 7. 1901

Hon. Andrew D. White

Highly esteemed friend.

Your tender and
thoughtful letter dated May
1st from Berlin, was more
to me than you anticipated.
The admiration and tender
regard that you have ever
been held in by my hus-
band and myself, made your

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words of encouragement and
support doubly welcome to
me, and they came at a time
when I felt that I needed
the support and strengthening
thoughts of strong thinking
men like yourself. The
Ross incident seems very
trivial to me in comparison
with the lack of good man-
agement the affair received.
Throughout the entire matter
I have been absolutely silent,
considering the less said on my
part the better. But I have
been intensely anxious, to
such a degree that it has
effected my health, fearing
some serious damage would
be done to the University and
its work that could not be