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[[stamped]] CHARLES L. FREER [[/stamped]]

#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan
March 13th, 1905.

[[pencil note]] Referment Smithsonian [[??]] sheet [[/pencil note]]

Dear Colonel Hecker;--

It seems quite a long time since I have sent you a letter, but there has really been little news to impart beyond that which has been promptly sent by Mr. Kennedy.  Matters at the office are running smoothly, and the same is true, so far as I know, in your other interests in Detroit.

Mr. Hance is expected home tomorrow from Florida and Moore says the Trust Company is moving along very satisfactorily. Things at the State Bank are also running all right, excepting in the matte row Mr. Potter's health.  He does not seem to entirely recover from the case of blood poisoning which bothered him some months ago.  Then too, he has been much disturbed by the recent illness of his brother, William F. Potter, who succeeded Baldwin as president of the Long Island Railroad.  About two weeks ago he [[footnote 1]] was suddenly stricken with spinal meningitis and his life was for a few days despaired of. He is better today and hopes of his recovery are now entertained. 


Mr. Russel announced at the Board meeting today that the property owned by the Hall and Munson Lumber Company had been sold and that our claim would be paid in full with interest. The Great Lakes Company are getting on very well with their con-tracts although they have been more or less delayed by the extremely
[[footnote 1]] (Num 7)

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The entire body of this letter is struck through with a single large X in pencil.