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#33 Ferry Avenue, East,
Detroit, Michigan,
September 23, 1914.

Mr. Henry B. Joy,
Care, President's Office, Packard Motor Car Company,
Detroit,
Michigan.

Dear Mr. Joy:

     I appreciate most warmly your kind letter of the 21st instant, inviting me to membership in the Detroit Athletic Club, and I regret very much that my health prevents even the slight activity of additional Club life.
     For a number of years, I was an active member of the old Detroit Athletic Club, and resigned some years ago when I found my time too busily occupied to make even infrequent visits to the Club.  When the new Detroit Athletic Club was being organized about a year ago, I was honored by an early invitation to join the new organization and, before sending my declination, I consulted my physicians, as well as my own natural instincts, and then it was decided that as it was quite unlikely I should ever be able to even enter the new Club House, it was wiser to decline the invitation. While, since then my health has improved considerably, it is not at all probable that I shall ever again be able to participate much of any in Club life outside of the Yondotega therefore I am reluctantly deciding to withdraw from several local clubs by or before January first.
     I mention these details so that you may more fully understand