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Title
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Letters, June 29, 1911_006
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Alternative Title
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Letters, June 29, 1911
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Date
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June 29, 1911
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Creator
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Edith Schwartz Clements
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Description
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handwritten letter
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Identifier
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nshs-rg3158am-002
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Transcription
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6 children's day, for hordes of small boys overran the place. They were in groups-
probably classes from school- each in charge of a man- evidently the teacher. All
the school-children- both boys & girls had knapsacks strapped across their backs;
some had absurd little bright green botany cans. I cannot begin to tell you all the
strange animals & birds & fishes we saw- snakes & turtles- armadilloes, flamingoes, all sorts of tropical, beautifully colored birds etc. etc. Everything
imaginable. Those that interested me the most, however were the Toucan, the monkeys,
kangaroos & sea-anemones. The toucan looks like his picture in our animal book. The
monkeys were so funny- playing tricks just like children, & romping. One mother monkey
perched on a limb, had her baby in her arms & was absorbedly hunting all through its
fur for vermin!-looking, oh so human! The little one snug-
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Rights
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