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126. [[preprinted]] Grand Hôtel Victoria Damas (Syrie) le [[/preprinted]] 11th June 1908 Dear Colonel Hecker A letter from Mr. Kennedy reached me at Beyrouth yesterday just as I was starting for Damascus. The letter brought news of your sisters passing, and, I wish, though very late, to express my sympathy in your sorrow. Through this recent loss, I believe you are left with out brother or sister, and this I am sure, brings to you a certain sense of peculiar loss: a singular loneliness, which in its own way is hard to face, aside from the many other feelings always stirred 155
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