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[[underlined]] Archives [[/underlined]]

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Telegraphic Address DEKEYSERS HOTEL LONDON.  
DE KEYSER'S ROYAL HOTEL, LONDON, E. C.
[[image - royal coat of arms]]
[[image - hotel and river Thames]]
[[image - royal coat of arms]]
J. BARKER, MANAGER
Corner of Victoria Embankment
London, [[/preprinted]] June 24th [[preprinted]] 188 [[/preprinted]] 9
[[preprinted]] E.C. [[/preprinted]]

My dear Boy:

I have this morning your dear letter of the 22nd and was very much pleased to hear that you had so little trouble to pass through the Customhouse.  I felt confident, when I left the steamer, that you would be fully competent to pilot the womenfolks through all right