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430 East 51st St. N.Y. April 6th, 1881 My Dear Classmate, Your reminder of the 3rd ult. reached me July. I did not know that a new class letter was to be written this year but thought you were to make up your class letter from the tardy and struggling epistles of the two years past. But of course they are outlawed by this time and it is right that we should begin fresh. Still if I had known I should have written before. I supposed you were in the city but I sttled myself at such an extreme from unclear Mary's place that I found it difficult to get there