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PHONE ELGIN 6-2716
BIRMINGHAM OFF IC E
HuGH
R. DowLING
703 COMER BUILDIN G BIRM I NGH A M 3 , A L AB A M A
ATTORNEY AT LAW .JAMES .!.FREELAND
BARNETT NAT I ONAL BAN K BUILDING
JACKSONVILLE 2,FLORIDA
April ll , 1955
Miss Edith House Assistant United St ates Attorney Feder al Building Jacksonville, Florida Dear Edith: I truly thought that I had written you some time ago supplementing my verbal felicitations on your completion of twenty-five years of service with the Government . But, alas , my secretary tells me that that is another slip of my aging and failipg memory . So I ask that you accept nunc pro tunc my warmest congratulations on this splendid record, and let me say that the Government is indeed to be congratulated in having a person who looks after its interests so capably and at the same time maintains so fine a sense of duty to those whom the Government serves . In my 20-odd years of practice of law - three of which were for the Government - I have not found a person who had any finer sense of balance as regards duty, both to the Government and to the public . I only wish there was some way that others might be inoculated with your perspective in this regard. My sincerest wishes for your continued happiness for the years to come , and wi t h kindest personal regards . Cordially yours,
Hugh R. HRD/mp