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    "title": "Letter from Mary Jane Truman to Harry S. Truman",
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        "Stark, Lloyd Crow, 1886-1972",
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    "ocrText": "Tuesday, Jef 27, 1940\nDear Hany:-\nTRUMAN NARA UNITED\nSunday and are glad to know you\nWe received you letter\nglad to know the packages arrived\nare feeling all nght again. also\nall nght the we had received two\nnice letters from Margaret on\nI J hmsday and she sermed to like\nthe gifts all night, hope so.\nI should have answered yesterday but\nstayed home with Mamma as ohe\nSaturday mght and Sunday. Irather\nhad one of her old bilims attacks\nthink thro it was a little intestinal\nfln mind my with it this time.\nshe is lots better this morning and\nthink she will be all night and She\nhas promised to stay in the sitting\nwom by the fine and do nothing but\nread, and I will be home again at"
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