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Director John M. Holmes
Rotary Club of greenville
South Carolina. U.S.a.

Permanent adress from where all
letters are forwarded:

Prof. G.[?] Albert Schweitzer
[underlined]: günsbach alsace
(France)

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Lambarene, Equatorial Afrika
16th of sept. 1931

Dear Sir,

Just by this mail your lines of June arrived and the answer is posted as
soon as well as a stone of the country here. It is not possible to send
a larger one, there are so many difficulties to send a post-parcel from
here. If later on some one [crossed out] of us returns to Europe and takes a large
one to dispatch it from Europe, it will be possible.

Please send all letters to the Doctor's permanent adress [underlined]: günsbach
alsace (France), it is a sure way to send letters to the Doctor. Also
our mail from here goes back to günsbach by the same sure way
otherwise letters are often lost.

The Doctor is deeply touched by your kind lines. all friendship given
to him encourages him in his hard work. For the moment the Doctor is
especially overcharged with work. The dry - season is going to end and
some constructions have to be finished before. These days the Doctor
hopes to bring the new barack for tuberculous patients to end.
When the rains begin there are more difficulties to do constructions.

Please excuse my poor English. I am one

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The letter continues of the other side as follows:

"of the nurses here, and there I know a little English the Doctor
asked me to say you, that he was happy to receive your friendly lines.

Respectfully yours
Emma Haussknecht.

Avec mes bonne pensees votre devoue
Albert Schweitzer."

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