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3 only ask for a few hours--just a very few--of your time, so I can grasp your hand once more and have my husband and girls
welcome you at our house. I will not worry you any more, but try to think of a way; I am sure you can make your Roxbury trip
a few hours shorter if necessary. With best love and wishes I am Harriett M. Ashley (Mrs. M. C.) Middletown New
York June 28 - 11 2 home Sunday to come here to a meeting of the American Institute of Pathology, but are going to
start home this P. M. and will reach there to-morrow P. M. some time--we came by auto, three Dr's and myself--and I wish very
much you could come and visit us for Sunday, and we would show you some of our restful, beautiful mountains, tho: they have
not the heighth and grangeur of your western mts: they are very beautiful. You are not in any great hurry to get to South
America are you? That country will keep, and we--all of those who learned to love you on a never to be forgotten trip in the
west