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[[letterhead]] Hotel Continental
3. Rue Castiglione
1er Arrd.
Paris
[[image - H with two interlocking Cs]]
TÉLÉGRAMMES:
Contental-Paris

TÉLÉPHONE
No. 243-91
No. 133-33

Paris le [[/letterhead]] May 23 [[1905?]]

Dear Colonel Hecker:-

Your full letter of the 7th inst. concerning the purchase of Free Press stock was received and enjoyed. Thank you for having written so fully.

In an earlier letter I referred to the matter, but only briefly because of the lack of time.  Let me now say that while the transaction involved many exasperating experiences to you and carries with it considerably less prospects of financial profit, I still believe 
 
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