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    "title": "Letter from Mary Jane Truman to Harry S. Truman",
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        "Freemasonry"
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    "ocrText": "Thursday april 22, 1937\nNARA TRUMAN\nDear Hany:-\nI thought I would mite to you again, you su\nwhen I mote Monday we did it know about the awful letter\nyou had received and had no rdea you had a special grand\nthe night you spoke here. At come we are worried the are\nintine to camy ant his threat. Howner do be careful for\ntrying to believe it is just some crank who does it really\nhe may be just crazy enough to attempt to do you\nreal harm. We will feel a lot better when we hear from\nyou, we whe glad to get your telegrams from Detroit and\nHen York and we know you are in Washington by the paper.\nat Chapster, so I'r femade a cake as usual and bought the\nWe an having the District Depenty's official visit tonight\nthe present it. at least if the Ratron asked me to I\ngift and the as fan as I know I will not have\ncan't remember it. I have forgotten w many things lathly I\nmay in the recret work and that kight ML pretty larry. They had\nhave forgotten that too. you see d had to teach a class\nhad the work before the same as I hour, hutit was almost\nhike teaching new members as they had forgottin Gultine must of it.\nAkama received a letter this morning from his who\nused to work for grandma. I know you will remember when\nshe and his husband worked here I do. It was night"
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