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[(Stationery header)] TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS, CHATAIGNE, LONDON. TELEPHONE No 1719 CERARD.
THE COBURG HOTEL, CARLOS PLACE, GROSVENOR SQUARE.W.[(/Stationery header)]

July 22nd 1900, 11 P.M.

My dear Colonel.
The newspaper clipping enclosed herewith, will in a conventional way, tell you of the external ending of the first chapter of a life which will be famous in the coming centuries. It says nothing of real interest for it deals only with things of a public moment that followed.
The real sounds of the day were hidden from public view, as were

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