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HOTEL DE LA BEAUCE
Café du Commerce
E. Viot
MER (Loir-et-Cher)

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Well - Here I am - How do you like the back side of the envalope? I did not have a grand choice of rooms - as there are only two! But everything is clean & the people better than the general kind - in this part of the country. I had one companion at dinner - (which by the way was a very good one & like the room only two francs) or rather two companions as he had his dog with him - He thinks that the people about here are of a very jealous and suspicious nature - as with those of the south west part of France. From two or three small experiences which I had en route I am encouraged to be of his oppinion

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men which I saw in the fields - as
dark was approaching and with only a furrow or two left to plow-
I miss you a lot your good companionship - but some time soon I want to go over the same ground with
you -
So long - Lady & Lots of love,
John -
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