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April 15, 1890

Dear Governor:
So many items mentioning your name
and mine have lately appeared in the daily papers
that some of our friends think it would be
well for me to write you a letter. Hence, this
communication, although I do not apprehend
any danger that you and I will be put
in a hostile attitude in our business--or, for
that matter, personal--relations; but the intervention
of others who do not altogether
understand our difference may tend to separate
our friends. Our views when at
variance have been freely expressed and it
is needless to allude to them further than to
say that we have each of us agreed to
disagree.
The remarks that I recently made
at the Southern Pacific Board meeting were
intended only as a reasonable expression of

April 15, 1890\

Dear Governor:
So many items mentioning your name
and mine have lately appeared in the daily papers
that some of our friends think it would be
well for me to write you a letter. Hence, this
communication, although I do not apprehend
any danger that you and I will be put
in a hostile attitude in our business--or, for
that matter, personal--relations; but the intervention
of others who do not altogether
understand our differencec may tend to separate
our friends. Our views when at
variance have been freely expressed and it
is needless to allude to them further than to
say that we have each of us agreed to
disagree.
The remarks that I recently made
at the Southern Pacific Board meeting were
intended only as a reasonable expression of