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[[preprinted]]
NIGHT LETTER Form 2289 B.
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
INCORPORATED
25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA  CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD
This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following Night Letter. 
Errors can be guard against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Night Letters, sent at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to ten times the amount paid for transmission; nor in any case beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission.

This is an UNREPEATED NIGHT LETTER, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above.
THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT  BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER
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RECEIVED AT WYATT BUILDING, COR. 14th and F Sts. Washington, D.C. ALWAYS OPEN [[/preprinted]] 1217a
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^[[115]] Ann Arbor Mich Dec 16

Miss Alice C Fletcher
214 First St. Southeast
Washn DC

I have telegraphed Hewitt asking him to make no reply to Boas document and not refer to it in letter or conversation but leave matter entirely in hands of President of the Institute. Please urge him to follow this advice Francis W Kelsey