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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
July 11th, 1904

Dear Cousin:-

Replying to your letter of recent date, I think that Lottie and her family always consider you as they do me, a distant cousin, and, as I am in the habit of addressing my letters to her as cousin, I suggest that you do the same.  The relations between the Viele's and Townsend's, I have never quite fully understood, but, of course, the Whaley's and my mother understood all the facts.  I have always been content and pleased with the term "cousin", and I fancy it is all right.

Lottie's husband seems to be a very simple but genuine man, and I believe they get on most perfectly together.  Catherine Whaley lives with them, and I believe they are all quite happy.  

My health is excellent at present, and I hope that you are keeping quite well.

With kind regards,

Yours very truly,
Charles L. Freer

Charles V. Lang, Esq.,
#3109 Eleventh Ave. South,
Minneapolis, Minn.