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is probably getting tighter and just [[?]] you in [[fairness?]] to your [[bank/best?]] [[?]] [[?]] last desperate effort before you find that you indeed give up the ship. I hope you won't fail and if you do I will certainly find the importance of my own position [[wherein?]] I want to be with you fighting on the ground. The circumstances of the last years have been such that my [[argument/argued?]] pleasure is anticipated by the silence of BB&S, [[esp?]] about the passage by Congress of recounting [[?]] again changed and have the difficulty as I see it
Congratulations on the Hillford monthly I agree with [[?]] about hitting [[?]] [[?]] things that haven't [[?]] played, [[?]] [[?]] in the days [[?]] the [[?]] [[?]] if [[?]] only let there[[?]] lucrative [[?]] [[?]][[?]] But that the army will actively [[?]] I am writing to Bill and will push the others as [[?]] in you [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]]
[[?]] if only [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] in and I approved [[?]] [[?]] in your efforts up to this time [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] and hope you won't have to give up. The [[?]] [[?]] as any [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]]. I hate [[strikethrough]] the  I shall personally [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] 
Sincerely,
Ray Banks
[[left margin]] A recount [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] away [[?]] . . . henceforth.

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whoever gotten this far on this transcription you're a literal miracle because this is very much hard to see