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[[underline]] (Oct 19. 1901) [[/underline]]
Benjamen ferm  [[[circled]] 1 [[/circled]]
My dear Doctor King,
  Dozens of times I have thought of trying to convince my sister-in-law Gertrude that she is unjust to me but the knowledge that she would not read anything from me has silenced me-
  It has occurred to me that you as a man would do me the justice at least to read a few words from me ^[[insert]] and there after would be an influence on her [[/insert]] It is a pain that I have long grown accustomed to, to be held up by Gertrude as something

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acts, and that quite regardless of whatever comforts it naturally restored to me.
  She cannot deny that she knows as well as I do that if his sister Kate continued, after what we call death, to feel solicitude for her children, that it was what she yearned for that her dearest friend Emma should become a mother to her children, and I balanced the knowledge of this fact against what I have always despised, or wished to, viz. public opinion, and I addressed this act sincerely to [[strikethrough]] my [[/strikethrough]] their mother, as I am sure you can imagine doing.  It is scarcely worth adding, since it is so often the case,[[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] in similar conditions,

Transcription Notes:
The first page of the letter starts with "My dear Doctor" and the 4th page of the letter starts with "acts, and". One hopes that the inner leaf with pages 2 and 3 will follow.