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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan, 
November 18th, 1901. 

Mr. B. H. Benedict, 
Care of Wycoff, Seamans & Benedict, 
#280 Broadway, New York City.

My dear Sir:--

While at the Mt. Pleasant House, White Mountains, a few weeks ago, I accidently, in the haste of departure for the Berkshires on the evening train, took a black Derby hat bearing your initials, and left my own, which was a fabrication of Knox. I did not discover the mistake until a day of two later, and I naturally supposed that the exchange had taken place in the sleeping car. I left the car at Springfield rather early in the morning after having overslept myself, and the porter brought my overcoat and your hat to the dressing-room, and hurried me to escape from the car before it started for New York. In a few days, I visited New York, and at once called at the Dunlap store, and asked them if the initials in the hat would help them to identify its owner. They looked through their records, but found that the label they usually place under the band of their hats when selling them had been omitted in yours, and they gave me the address of another Mr. Benedict in New York, whose office is somewhere on lower 

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