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Jules Marcou
Cambridge, Mass. 13 sept 1871

I. A. Lapham Esqr
Milwaukee.

Dear Sir

Foreign & civil wars have driven me
away from my home in Paris, and now
I am again, & this time for good, in the U.
S. I am deterimed to become an american
citizen, and I have already purchased a new home
& ground in Cambridge, close by Harvard College
on account of my sons who will be soon in
age for college.

I have not yet seen any publication of yours,
since I left in 1866. In 1867, during the
great exhibition in Paris, I saw one of your