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value and feel grateful for your kind friendship and support throughout.

I know that in no small measure, do I owe this appointment to your efforts, and I wish to assure you that it will be my continued object to prove myself worthy of your esteem. I would like to feel that as my father's son, I may do credit to his friends and to his party.

Mother is most enthusiastic over this appointment and she joins Ida & me in