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you kindly ask some other member, using your own choice- to introduce Hotei in our club and baptize him with a case of the oldest and dryest the club cellars contain at my expense. Hotei will smile with you all just as his brothers in flesh do with me here. I had hoped to send for our New Year dinner a roasted pig such as I sampled here last year, but also he proves to be a much rarer bird than I knew or dreamed and cannot be duplicated. So Will Barbour, as usual, must continue to wear the belt- he has no peer as a farmer, even here, where farming was a science before the creation of the world.

I was pleased to learn from your letter of August 30th, that Mrs. Hecker is bearing up so well under her long suffering that she was expecting ere long to get out again and to enjoy your yacht. [[strikethrough]] again [[/strikethrough]]. Thank you for your attention to the Alger Sullivan check and other matters. I trust that you are keeping very well and that you are having good yachting and fishing. To you and yours and enquiring friends all good wishes.

Always sincerely yours
CLF