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Legation of the United States of America
Constantinople, Dec 1894

My dear Wife,

I (...) the deed you
(.....)--prope(?), acknowledged for (...). I have been quite
busy for some days. (...) and the Palace(?)
(...) the Armenian (..)p, at all hours. The English
and American papers have been full of Armenian (...);
(...) that for of (...) 10,000 men women and children Slaves(?).
Some truth (...........) hatched by the (...)
t(...) a(...). (..)yland (.....) to prep(?) (...) right to
send an Officer (...) the friend to ex(...), claiming their(?)
right under the 6th article of the Treaty of Berlin-- in
which it was stipulated that this (...) sh(...) effect
(...) in Asia Minor; and (...) (..)b the island of
(...) to (......). But
the jealousy of (...) fp(...) presented (...) active
(...).

(...) when (..)yland wanted to send an Officer
The Turk became alarmed, and feared that she would
hot(..)up a lay zone about atrocities(?), as during this

Legation of the United States of America
Constantinople, Dec 1894