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letterhead Jany 28, 1908 My Dear Friend: Your kindly greeting by card was very grateful to me. I note your name occasionally
in the papers. Once, perhaps two years ago, with keen regret that you were reported dangerously ill. I trust that you recovery
has been complete. I am doing some very congenial work for the public just now which this letter head discloses. This will
be mailed from Des Moines when I am just closing a two weeks stay delving among old archives and old newspapers and interviewing
old citizens. For there are no official records on file of Iowa soldiers in the Mexican war, and very little of her territorial
militia. I expect in the interest of the work, to visit Madison, Wis., and lay tribute on the ample stones of the Wisconsin
Historical Society. It will be my first visit since I left the room in the old North Dormitory in June 1861. I think I can
pick it out easily enough 04369