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3 a comrade in fact, as well as my doctor. She lost her husband her babies many years ago counts her patients as her family
now. She is a brave bright woman very successful in her profession. I rent a room in a flat, am allowed the privelege of using
the kitchen, where I prepare eat my meals, unless I am so fortunate as to be invited out. My neighbors, from whom I rent my
room, are cultivated people, who in days past had wealth travel all good things, but now are verging toward old age toward
poverty. They, Mr. Mrs. Millard are charming people I am fond of them. x x x I am very happy here expect to stay some time,
possible three months longer. x x x x I want to approach you on a matter of business - I hesitated for 01398 4 I know
how busy you always are - but I know also how kind you have always been to me mine. I have a cousin here, Edward Merrill Coe,
(his mother a cousin of my mother's) He wants very much to go to California I told him that I would write to you for advice
help if you could give it in the shape of work. He is twenty-one, has good health, good mind, good principles. He was brought
up on a New Hampshire farm - for three years taking almost entire charge of it, that is, he was a kind of overseer, his uncle
who owned the farm, running a time in the village. Ed came to Boston learned the printer's trade, but he does not 01398