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Letters, June 29, 1911_011

Item

Edith Schwartz Clements, Letters, June 29, 1911
Title
Letters, June 29, 1911_011
Alternative Title
Letters, June 29, 1911
Date
June 29, 1911
Creator
Edith Schwartz Clements
Description
handwritten letter
Identifier
nshs-rg3158am-002
Transcription
11 looking up the University. The men knew, were not there, one having moved to & the other being at botanic gardens. I was interested in watching the students,
with the inevitable cane & Panama hat- some munching huge sandwiches, some with sabre
scars across the cheek. No one seemed to pay any particular attention to us, though
it seems to be plainly written on us, somewhere, that we are Americans. At office, where we stopped for a check, a young man remarked to F. [Fritz] that he was glad to see some Americans. Perhaps the mark is in our shoes, for I
never saw such funny things in that line as the Germans wear! long, narrow toes-square at the end- low heels, so that one flops along like a duck, flat-footed, with several
inches
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