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Title
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Letters, July 8th, 1911_009
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Alternative Title
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Letters, July 8th, 1911
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Date
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8-Jul-11
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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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9 as “good appetite”; “pleasant journey” “sleep well,” even “good noontide.” They always say “good day” on entering a store, bow & say “Adieu” on leaving. The men bow low & and take their hats way off, even to each other. It keeps one busy to catch & return properly the many salutations, especially when entering or leaving a dining-room. The scenery to Strassburg was of cultivated fields & pleasant villages. Julie would have enthused over the beautiful scarlet poppies and blue cornflowers which grow as rank as weeds among the grain. I understand since seeing them, why artists, always paint scarlet poppies and blue corn-flowers in a bouquet with yellow grain. Another interesting thing was the sight of women as laborers in the fields. As far as I can judge, as to division of labor here, the women seem to do the work, while the men wear the uniforms. This journey proved the longest yet — almost 12 hrs.
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Rights
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