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    "title": "Letter from Mary Jane Truman to Harry S. Truman",
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    "ocrText": "Widnesday Feb.1, 1939 NARA\nDear Hany:-\nHARRY\nLIBRARY\nWe received your letter this morning\nand was glad to hear from you as we always are We\nappreciate and thank you In the check hope we can\ndo something for you some day too. I don't mind\nworking a lit and really don't mind having to get up\ncarly iither only if I could come a with later I\nthink I could get mine done at home each morning be-\nfore I have to leave. and if it whe a later ham\nI expect I would just undertake to do that much\nthing I regut is that I just and it take a busing\nmore and be rushing just the same. The only\nthem. However I am glad I have this joh and\nanne night after the world was and game at it\njust hope I make good at it. I am starting\nm this week to key Thank of the days sales\nand learn something about Keeping the books.\nnever was my thing point and its a little\nI am not doing so bod, hit you thom anitmatic\ndifficult at times. I do Rope I can pass the\ncivil service examination for that would help a\nlot. It is niver the to be night here at home"
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