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 Turin, Nov. 14, 1887

Dear Cousin Edward,

 I suppose you will expect when you see this letter that there is a request for something in it so I may as well come to the point at once, We have a new Lyceum just started here and although I am not a member I have been chosen as one of the chief disputants for next Monday evening.  The question is: Resolved That Corporal Punishment should be abolished, and I have the affirmative sides, now what I

in top margin: about Thanksgiving?