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In 1907, a Chicago theater manager married his secretary of fifteen years. A friend in the business, author of a dozen comedies, sent a letter to the bride, pretending to be crestfallen that she'd married and was no longer available. This is the letter, from famous author and playwright Paul W. Wilstach to Mary Ellen "Nellie" O'Hagan Davis.
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