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Oct. 24, 1914. Dear Mr. Muir: Your letter of 1st inst, reached me yesterday. I was very glad to hear again from you, and
must thank you for your kind word regarding our little country and for what your people are doing for us; at present we are
comparatively well off, the war has done us indirectly a great deal of har illegible but, we can shift along and must think
of relieving those poor Belgians who, have practically lost their whole and are homeless and starving. We are preparing and
getting ready to receive and maintain all those who will accept our illegible hospitaly while their country is still in the
hand of the barbarian Lordes of Germany, and if you can do something for them, we will be only too glad to know every one
help those who are most in need and they are many, more than we could relieve ourselves. I am planning going over to the
states and lecture there with projections over 200 I intend devoting half of the proceeds for the relief of the Belgians;
do you think if I go there I could bring in a tidy little amount; the other 1/2 would cover my own expenses. I 05869