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“Granly” Charlottenlund
Denmark
31-12-11

Dear Sir!

With my New Years greetings
to you a. your wife, I like to
tell you that it grieves one to
the heart if my happy [connec-
tion] with you should fade and
die out. Ireland a. its cause
is all to nicely in my mind as to
not be glad to have a friend like
you in that country.

I have awaited since springtime
and again given up to hear from you.
My little debt to you I despatch
to day (3 sh), delaied as I hoped to
have the book I asked you to find for me. Now it may seem, you
could not find it. But by chance
let me know a little of your life
and about Ireland. Yours ever Å M. B.

Dr. Douglas Hyde
Ratra
French Park
Co. Roscommon
Ireland