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73 Pinckney St. Boston

May 23.'85

My dear Miss Fletcher;

I was very glad to get your card I did not know that you had returned from New Orleans ; so when I had such frightened & despairing letters from Jusette & her father, saying that the agent had told them that the president said their certificates of ownership of land were worthless, I wrote at once to Mr. Welsh fearing that some harm was in store for the Omahas, but hoping (as I wrote to Jusette) that there was some mistake. I shall be very glad to see you again- But do you know that dear, loving, unselfish Mrs. Watson died just before Easter? She was very ill for some weeks. It