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you had so cunningly and skillfully made with your own hands. I appreciate, perhaps, more than others the struggle you had
to get through college, and also appreciate the great mark you have made in the world. I am now sixty-four years old and you
must be over seventy. I have just lost my wife, which causes me to revert to my early days. The University of Wisconsin has
grown, as you have grown, and is now a great institution, as you are a great man, - known all over the world. I extend to
you my felicitations on your climbing up the ladder of fame. I wish you the compliments of the approaching holidays, and
trust I may hear from you. Kindly give me your San Francisco address when you are there, so I may make another effort to
visit you when I am in that city. With kindest regards, I remain, Sincerely yours, illegible 802 Central Bldg., Seattle,
Wash.