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No. 33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
November 10th.,1906.

My dear Rice:-

The sending of your good letter of November eighth is entirely characteristic: Thank you so much for it.

I shall be pleased to look up Mr. Lythgoe after my arrival in Cairo. I have known of his work both at Boston and New York and shall be delighted to meet him.

After nearly a year of very hard work I am glad to feel that it ends this evening and that to-morrow I leave for New York and sail from that port on Thursday next, the fifteenth instant. I still have in mind a letter you sent me some ten years ago in which you said that with Pico behind me I would quickly forget the cares of America. All this happened, and not on the first trip only,but on half a dozen more which I have since enjoyed. As Pico fades from view this time I shall feel that for the first time in many years I leave practically all responsibilities of a material nature in the hands of others. I resigned my last Directorate yesterday, and while I retired from business six years ago, I could not rid myself of cares as a Director in several institutions, but now everything is entrusted to the hands of others and you can understand how much I shall enjoy the freedom.