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NAYLOR & CO., INC.
45 Wall Street,
New York, Aug. 15/13.

My dear dodo, 

Your letter of Aug. 4th with another check for $15.- reached me yesterday. As you will have seen from a letter I wrote you a short while ago, I found out that the So. Penn O. Co. had rec'd your check, so I destroyed the letter to them which you sent.

Regarding the check for $405.- which got lost, I think you had been with the Trust Co. stopping payment on same, so that no one can misuse it. 

I am very much interested to hear that you are thinking of buying a country place. Do let me know where it is & all about it. As to taxes, I cannot say when they assess property, not knowing where your place is. On L.I. they make assessments the first half of the year & open the books on Aug. 1st, I believe, which gives the property holder till about Dec 1st to make his complaint if he has any, & try to obtain a reduction.

I would not let the matter of taxes interfere with buying a place if you want one as you cannot escape taxes anyway & in most places the