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Title
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Letters, July 8th, 1911_014
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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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14 absolutely clean & quiet & orderly. We have nothing like it in America. Fritz & Mrs. D. have had long & spirited discussions on the beer-question, but so far neither has cornvinced the other. Drunkenness is a very rare thing here & is never caused by beer only usually among the upper classes who drink wine & champagne. The poor are sober, industrious & clean-. The lighest beers have practically no alcohol at all, the heavier, only two or three percent, which explains the difference between the results here where these are universally drunk & those in America & England where gin grog & whiskey do such frightful harm. * Out of place, inserted both. To return: we had a delightful lunch in the shady garden, of sandwiches, lemonade & beer (you can perhaps guess who took which) and some cherries & cakes which we had brought with us. This with some card-writing made the time pass quickly & pleasantly & we were soon on our way again. Our first stop was at a tiny
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Rights
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