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Curtis George Wm Feb 6, 1879
West New Brighton Staten Island N.Y.
6 February 1879
Dear Madame,
I am very much obliged by your kind and [a??ent] invitation to come and speak for your Society. But I am so engaged
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with work at home that I am constantly compelled to decline such invitations. In this case I must console myself with thinking that your cause really needs no aid that your
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nearer resources cannot supply.
Again thanking you, I am very faithfully Yours
George William Curtis