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[Letterhead] THE OVERLAND LIMITED ELECTRIC LIGHTED CHICAGO-SAN FRANCISCO-PORTLAND-LOS ANGELES EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR V-A UNION PACIFIC AND SOUTH PACIFIC [in pencil] (1909)

Sept 5th Dear Mary Last night in he [sic] train an old farmer fellow came to me & asked was my name Darrow] & I admitted it. He told me that he & Mr. Starr (Miss Starr's father) drove 18 miles once to hear me speak that he had all my books & had read every thing of mine he had seen. (He seemed a very intelligent fellow didn't he) He told me a number of