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No. 33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
November 3rd.,1906.

Mrs. Seeley,
No. 23 West 39th St. New York City.

Dear Madam:-

As named to you at the time of my last visit in New York, I have determined to spend the Winter in the Orient, consequently my house here will be closed for six or eight months. My chef, Ulysse Barillet, whom you sent out to me last Spring, has been in my employ ever since and has improved in his work month by month, until to-day I consider him a first-class cook. He has increased his knowledge of English and can do the marketing thoroughly well, and in fact can make himself quite well understood every where. He is a most faithful worker, is economical and has a fine disposition, so you will see I am now enabled to recommend him. I hope you can secure a good position for him. He will leave here on the thirteenth instant and call at your office on either the fourteenth or fifteenth of this month, and if you can find him a suitable position I hope you will do so.

The butler, Ryer Ryerson, whom I bought out with me from New York recently is a faithful and willing worker, but