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601 Park Avenue Baltimore Dec. 10th, 1899 My dear Mrs. Sewall, I duly received your letter of the 6th inst., but, owing to a great pressure of professional and other business engagements, found it quite impractical to acknowledge this yesterday. It will give the great pleasure to dine with you on Wednesday
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provided I reach Indianapolis in time and can harmonize this engagment with another of a somewhat imperative nature, and I am a little embarrassed by the fact that you do not mention the hour. I expect to leave here at 4.35 P.M. on Tuesday, reach Indianapolis (if the train is on time) at 12.25 P.M. Wednesday and, immediately upon my arrival at the Bates House, go into a conference
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with some gentlemen connected with the National C.S.R. League which will probably consume all or nearly all of the afternoon so that I could hardly avail myself of an invitation for an earlier hour than about 6 P.M. You can judge and inform me whether this must deprive me of the pleasure of meeting you, and believe me. Mrs. May Wright Sewall Yours Most truly, 635 N [?] St Charles J Bonaparte Indianapolis