After the sale to your company I was simple enough to go to Buffalo and try it again, but soon met with defeat and retired with my flag in the dust.

I then went to Duluth, and was on the top wave, till the real-estate bubble broke, and I broke with it.

I have had my ups and downs, but I have tried to take my medicine and look pleasant instead of sitting down under a juniper tree and blaming my losses to John D.Rockefeller.
I suppose I would have put off writing this letter for another year or more as I have done so long, had it not been for a little chat that I had with Mr.Hanafin, Superintendent of the Buckeye Pipe Line Company, a day or two since when I was relating the sale, etc., of the old B.O.

Co.'s business, and in that way revived the intention that had lain dormant since the last good resolution in regard to writing it was made.

But it's done now, and off my mind.
With much respect and admiration to John D.Rockefeller I remain, Yours truly, H.M.