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telegrams -- GRAND.""

[[image: a multistory hotel with a gazebo in front]]

The Grand Oriental Hotel.
Colombo, Ceylon.
[[/printed]]

February 5th 1909

[[note in pencil]] For Miss Rhoades consideration [[/note in pencil]]

My dear Colonel,

Your good letters of Dec. 31st & January 2nd have both reached me here - also your Cablegram telling me of General Alger's death and of Anna having gone to Arizona.

The passing on of the General is not of course, very surprising as he has had so many calls during recent years, still, the knowledge that he is really gone, that we never shall see him again gives a real shock. The General was the kindest of men and did much to help others - more I fancy, than will ever be known.  I wish he had never entered politics and I wish he might have kept out of 

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