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^[[underline]] July 18. [[/underline]]
[[preprinted]] [[image: floral design]]
THEODORE PRESSER
Music Publisher 1708 CHESTNUT ST.
DEALER IN FOREIGN & AMERICAN -MUSIC-
PHILADELPHIA, PA., [[/preprinted]] 
July 6/94.
[[strikethrough]] Dictated by [[/strikethrough]]
My dear Miss Fletcher:
Yours rec'd & the letter to Sturnfef already mailed. I am more glad than I can tell you to think that  you feel satisfied with the results of your fatigues of last week. I felt all the time that you were carrying a very heavy load; one which I should have been glad to lighten, if that had been possible. Add to that the cruel meanness of that note in that paper, (I should have said [[underline]] d-d paper [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] )[[/strikethrough]] if I had been talking with a man), and it must have been a hard week for you. I tried not to disgrace you and I am glad to know that you look back on the events of the week with satisfaction. You deserved all the success our combined efforts could win. As for me, last week is a