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[[File:ELT 1.jpg|right|]]]][[File:ELT 2.jpg|right|]]]][[File:ELT 3.jpg|right|]]]]This letter, enclosed in the original envelope from E. L. Trudeau to [[Charles%20M.%20Lea|Charles M. Lea]], was found in the original manuscript of Trudeau's Autobiography. The manuscript was stored in the [[Trudeau%20Institute|Trudeau Institute]] archive, sealed in its original wrapping, until it was opened by [[Mary%20Hotaling|Mary Hotaling]] in November of 2013. 

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<span>Biggs & Flexner & Barker all spoke about the address and said I ought to have to it printed [?] they think<span> many of my friends who are not Drs would like it. –E.L.T.

<span>May 14 

<span>[Marginal note: "Rec'd May 16<sup>th</sup> Ans. May 17<sup>th</sup>, 1910"]

<span> My dear Mr. Lea

<span>I saw Dr. Hare at the Congress and heard of your safe arrival.<span>  Welcome home.<span>  It is good even if I don't see you often to know that you and Mrs. Lee [sic] are in this country.<span>  Well, the winter has been a sort of Waterloo to me and a little also to Mrs. Trudeau and we are neither of us very vigorous as yet.<span>  I had doubted all along my ability to do the Congress business but Mrs. Harriman sent her car up for us and as I warmed up to the job it came easy so that I presided at the entire session of the Congress from [2] two to five PM – Read my address in the evening and received with Lotte for two hours! My address seemed to make an impression and I have been asked by hundreds of people for a reprint; for this reason I have wondered if it could not be printed as a little booklet in some way.<span>  Could you have this done for me and let me know what it would cost?<span>  The cover could be very simple and I would be glad to leave to you the selection of the paper type —- margin etc.<span>  I will send the address by registered mail and at your convenience let me know what [3] kind of a simple booklet can be made of it and at what cost for say 100 to 150 copies.<span>  I went to Baltimore from Washington and saw the surgeons there.<span>  They seem in doubt about my bladder; the xRay shows a shadow where there should be none and not dark enough for a stone: the symptoms have not been like stone <span>     at any rate I decided to defer operation of any kind unless absolutely necessary until fall.<span>  I confess the two things floor me -- one I seemed to be able to fight but two who are always more or less active is discouraging indeed.<span>  I hope to try to get down to Little Rapids for an attempt at fishing though I am not up to much fishing yet.<span>  Tell me about yourself and Mrs. Lea.<span>  Lotte and I both send love

<span>affectionately,

<span>E. L. Trudeau