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We have no information yet as to your permanent successor as post surgeon -- Chaplain Manes left us a few days ago, being ordered home to await retirement, on account of his "celestial ear", as Dr. Egan called it -- Should my expected recruiting detail take me to St. Louis for station, Mrs. Read and I will probably run down to New Orleans for Mardi Gras next winter, as neither of us have ever had an opportunity to witness the pageants - should we do so as with our cousin (strikeout Marshall) who is Supt of the L. & N. R.R.