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Copy San Jose Cal Mch 6/96

Geo. E. Gray, Esq.

Valued friend-

Your note touch-
ed me deeply, I have
always been assured
of your interest and
your loyalty to my hus-
band and myself, but
I am thankful that you
continue to give your
interest to the work which
he so unselfishly began.
Let me confess to you that
as yet I have not been
able to use the word
victory in connection
with the result of this
suit. Nor am I willing to
or ready to believe that
there was a spirit on
earth that would use
base means to defeat
the object my dear hus-