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Washington D.C. July 17 " 1898

Dear Mother.

   In the city of our country I will write you a few lines. I wrote you from the car, the Penn Limited. hope you have received it. 
   I am indeed off for Cuba. Our ship sails from New York Tuesday. I leave Washington to-morrow. 
  It hardly seems like Sunday to-day, at 9. this morn I went down to-morrow to