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and polite words.

Possibly it would have been better, immediately after my arrival here on the morning of November 7th, to have written a complaint to the superintendent of your dining-car service, but I felt a reluctance to do so, and I should never have mentioned the matter at all, but for the later experience, - that had on the 17th, inst.

Now, in view of your cordial letter of December 21st, I feel, that it is due you and your management, to write you as I have of the earlier incident, and to make plain the fact, that my personal discomfort of breakfast was of little importance, but, I know that the management of your road do not wish its patrons treated with incivility.

I trust, that the man against whom this present complaint is ledged will not lose his job, but will hereafter, treat other patrons more politely.

Believe me,

Very truly yours,
Charles L. Freer

1-Encl.

Henry B. Ledyard, Esq.,
Chairman - Michigan Central Railroad Company,
Detroit, Michigan.