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American Bible House.
Pera, May 3rd. 1917.
My dear Dr. Mordtmann.
In view of the present situation which brings my work to an end, I have decided, to take advantage of the opportunity given to leave the country and to take a vacation. My wife needs this change even more than I do. She has been most devotedly attached to her work in the hospitals and in divising work for the poor. I am distressed in view of the misery which may come to the poor people in the interior and I am doing what I can to keep the stream of help which we have supplied thus far from dying out altogether.
I cannot leave without sending a word of thankfulness for your never-failing kindness to me in these matters.
I have also most grateful recollections of the Embassy’s courtesy in their share of the work.
It will always afford me pleasure to testify of this.
Yours faithfully
M. M. Peet.