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Private

Rooms of
State Historical Society
of Wisconsin

[Illustration]
Seifert & Lawton, Milwaukee

Address:
L.C. Draper, Corr. Sec'y
or. D. S. Durrie, Librarian

Madison Dec. 7th, 1871.

I. A. Lapham, LL.D.,

My Dear Sir:

Our Annual Meeting
will take place on Tuesday
Evening Jan 2d. [ensuing?]. As
there is then to be a new
election of President &
other officers, I thought
I wd. [would] write you & ask what
your wishes are with reference
to re-election? Please
speak frankly.

Why I inquire is - that
something has been suggested,
that in case you have no
feeling or desire for re-elec-
tion, that Hon. Alex. Mitchell