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Dear Miss Fletcher,

Do not think that I mean to bore you with frequent letters, but I have today a line from Miss Dix, asking for your address, from which I infer that she means to write to you - for the purpose I have enclosed to her an addressed envelope.

In a letter to Miss Dorothea L. Dix, with whom for many years I have not infrequently corresponded (She was well Known as [[underline]] deeply [[/underline]] interested in matters concerning the Insane - has been the means of the erection of over 30 Hospitals for that class of the afflicted in the various states of our Country, and also in Canada - and during our War was prominent in the direction of Supplies for Soldiers furnished by Government, and the various Committees of the North) I mentioned your

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visit to New Haven, and your present Commission from the "Interior" department, and also a word of what your friends said of your work – hence the application for your address.

Miss D. is quite advanced in years and an invalid, with, as they say, "a mortal disease" – has been at Trenton under medical care for about a year & a half. She is a highly cultivated Christian woman and truly benevolent as well as beneficent.

There was no occasion for my writing except the desire, that if her letter reached you, that you Should Know about the most excellent writer, and if you had