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#33, Ferry Avenue, East,
Detroit, Michigan,
November 19th, 1914.

J. Orange, Esq.,
Care, Manhattan Hotel,
New York City.

Dear Mr. Orange:

I am glad to have your kind letter of the 17th instant and I regret that fate has apparently been against our meeting during your present trip to America. My health has prevented me from doing many things that I would have so much enjoyed, and one of those is not having found the way clear to invite you to Detroit for a visit during your stay in America. In a general way I can tell you that my strength is somewhat greater than when I saw you last, but in January last paralysis attacked the muscles of my throat and since then I have been under constant treatment, and at times my voice has been very much interfered with and my medical advisors have found it necessary to curtail the use of the voice, and this, as you can well understand, had limited many of my doings, not only in seeing friends but also in corresponding with them. However, I am glad to say that my personal correspondence has received regular attention and your last letter was promptly answered and I cannot account for its not having reached you. It may reach you in the future or be returned to me.

With you I am disappointed in not seeing Mr. Bahr on this side this winter. I wish you were both with me today. The weather now is very 

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