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and make it a Russio-Franco love fest
I sent him a few fine cigars today.
Recently he has been breaking up the
balls again -- fearing Armenians would
there form conspiracies. News has
just reached here of a massacre
of some 60 Armenians not far
from Erezoum by the mountain
Kurds. So every thing at the Palace
is full of suspicion, fearing
the Armenian sedition may break
out in the city. This fear of course
is idle

I have not heard recently from
the Bremonds + Steiners.

Am glad to see that you got
the bible safely to the Board of
Regents, but I feel no assurance
that they appreciated the present.