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March 16th, 1899.

Mr. O. W. Meysenburg,
President, The Wells and French Co.,
Chicago, Illinois 

My dear Sir:-

I have your letter of [[?]] instant and note same fully. As mentioned in my telegram of yesterday [[?]] further correspondence received from New York to-day [[?]] the Central Trust Company will be ready on Monday [[?]] with all the [[car?]] builders and hope you can arrange to be here personally as indicated in your letter.

I shall attend the meeting of the Board of Directors of the American Car and Foundry Company, as I presume you will, and should We not meet earlier, I shall count with pleasure you should attend the meeting of the Board, at which time we can [[?]] and [[?]] generally.

Yours very truly,
Charles L Freer

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