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Hotel Ryan
Welz & Fry,
Hotel Co. Proprietors
St. Paul, Minn. June 23, 1904

My dear Mrs. Stanford

Your kind letter of the 16th ult.
has been forwarded to me here, where I have
been detained much longer than I expected.
Am now about ready to turn Westward again.
The kind expressions contained in your letter
are very gratifying to me, and I hasten to assure
you that I shall not allow any matter of mere
salary to cheat us out of the privilege of serving
you at the organ and in charge of that noble
choir, if you elect me to it. In other words, I
leave the whole matter of salary, most gladly
in your hands; I am only anxious to find a little
home where Mrs. Blodgett and I may live in a
simple way, (after all these years when we have
been separated by the breadth of the continent, on
account of her health,) and to exert an in-
fluence of helpfulness with the beautiful best