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letterhead 3 I have lost track of for several years, but he was a lawyer in Springfield Mo. for some time and was once
candidate for Congress but not elected. I feel that I ought to apologize for burdening your time with these reminiscences,
but my life has been spent in a struggle for bread and butter in small towns out of the current of travel, so I seldom meet
old acquaintances. I had never heard one word of you since on parted in Madison, and the shock of surprise, and sense of happy
discovery on reading the magazine article was so great, that I have not resisted the temptation to write and ask whether you
are really the clock man. It should be funny if my discovery should prove only a coincidence Sincerely Yours Harry Reid
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