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collections make my head ache I take a day off and go to the country. In this way Chartes, Maintenon and Rambouillet have already been visited and Versailles, Fontainebleau, Dreux and Arret are on the list. Later I hope to see the chateaus of Touraine and a few of the finer northern French cathedrals. By mixing the interesting things I can get both indoor and outdoor exercises and thus keep in better trim.

I have given up expectation of visiting St. Petersburg and it now looks as if I will have to return to New York about September 1st or try the steerage. I am hardly a good enough sailor to try that!

Very sincerely yours,
Charles L. Freer

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