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Letter Dated June 14, 1899

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Wright Cycle Company
      1127 West Third St.,
                             Dayton, Ohio. June 14, 1899

Sec. Smithsonian Institution,

      Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I have to thank you for your letter of June 2nd in which you kindly enclosed a list of selected books treating on aerial navigation. I also wish to thank you for pamphlets # 903, 93[....], 1134 and 1135 from the Smithsonian reports.

I enclose one dollar currency for? which you may send me

"Experiments in Aerodynamics" Lang[ley].

Yours truly

/s/ Wilbur Wright