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inconvenience.

If you say so, I shall send you copies of my pictures and you can see if slides may be made from them. If not, we will have to get the originals again. I might have my slides made in Boston, or here in Washington without waiting for you.

I shall begin now to prepare my paper; but I should like, before I close my work, to get a glimpse of your paper so that I may repeat nothing that you say. I expect to follow you — in fact to supplement you in Boston.

I am delighted to hear that you are getting up such a fine show in Omaha.

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I have just read in the evening paper the sad news that Prof. O. J. Mason has been stricken with apoplexy and lies in a dangerous condition. I hope we may not lose him yet.

Mrs. Matthews joins me in kindest regards.

Yours Sincerely
[[signature]] Washington Matthews. [[/signature]]