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HOTEL DU CHEMIN DE FER
BUITENZORG
JAVA
Buitenzorg, le 2nd March 07
110
For Miss Rhodes consideration
Dear Colonel Hecker,
Your cablegram advising me of the death of Will McMillan reached me on arrival at Batavia, day before yesterday. It's dread fully sad news and I am quite upset by it. Mr. Gillet, Gen'l Alger and now Will-all such close and old-time friends and business associates gone since I left Detroit.
It unnerves one, so far away. Their deaths mean vacancies never to be filled and changes socially and in business which I dread thinking of.
I hope neither of the three suffered severely before going.