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HOTEL CONTINENTAL
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PARIS
3 RUE DE CASTIGLIONE

Le[[/preprinted]] June 18th [[preprinted]]190[[/preprinted]]5

Dear Colonel Hecker.

I have read with pleasure your two letters of May 29th Whatever course seems to you best in Free Press matters will be to me entirely satisfactory [[insert]] to me [[/insert]].  Sorry the Driving Club Bonds payment is again put off, but I know the money must eventually come. The worst feature just now is the low state of my bank account and the bother being caused you to find funds to meet my large current needs.

When you see the purchases you

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