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[[marginalia, written sideways at top]] Just as we finished paper, yours of the 7th was brought in & I read it to Sue. & mother. [[/marginalia]] 1898 Dear Miss Fletcher. Yours of the 5th received Friday. Saw Susie Sat: and asked her to come down with mother Sunday & spend the day so we could go over Miss Gay's questions. They came down early yesterday & we talked Lodge building for about four hours, Susie thought it would be a good plan to have mother commence from the beginning which she did. Susie took it down in writing which I send you this A.M. Was delighted with Susie's plan of commencing from the beginning & it was easier to answer questions. You will see one end of stringer was [[underlined]] underneath [[/underlined]] all the way around the circle; this helped to keep logs or stringers in place, and also kept from