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my dear [[sonnie?]]

Well you see I am in no special place, yet just waiting around to be put to work. Of course Jim & my time must be put in the study of french lessons. When I was looking at all the wonderfull [[sic]] lines in Westminster Abby I noticed that what made it so beautifull [[sic]] on the in side was often all the monument erected to the grate [[great]] men + women of the world inside it walls. Grate writers, Shakespeare. Grate warrier Paul Jones, Engineers, Poets Painters + Sculptors and no matter what shape the monuments were the grate [[sic]] things men did + time had blended all together into a wonderfull [[sic]] monument. that could mean nothing else but a grate monument to the Progress of the world for the last 8 hundred years. we have not had one bit of

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I am marking as complete, but I am not 100% sure what [[sic]] is, I'm assuming it is a transcribers initials