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The New Commercial Hotel A. Clark & Co., Proprietors American Plan Rates $2.00, with Bath $2.50 per Day Large Sample Rooms

LINCOLN scratched out Lewiston, ILL., Apl 18 1913

Dearest Tafern,

  If you were only here! This is a quiet, sleepy little place about the size of Wheaton and I am on the outskirts of the town, tho only three blocks or less from the Q depot, where I see people making gardens, and hear quantities of birds, catbirds, robins, red birds and I don't know what all -- some of their songs are unfamiliar to me - and where I have the queerest looking glass!
  It is similar to the ones they have in the "house of fun" or some such place at White City. I have not been able to get a good view of myself since I came. Sometimes I look like this sketch or this sketch or this sketch