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you will allow us to offer
your name for election.

May I ask the favour [favor]
of an early reply, as we
report only such as sig-
nify their willingness to
accept.

I am very respectfully

Yours Edmund F. Slafter
For the Com.

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Ans'd Nov 9th expressing
a willingness to accept the
honor!