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Title
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Letters, July 12th, 1911_003
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Alternative Title
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Letters, July 12th, 1911
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Date
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July 12th, 1911
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Creator
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Edith Schwartz Clements
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Description
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Edith Schwartz Clements handwritten letter
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Identifier
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nshs-rg3158am
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Transcription
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3 far the best thing yet! Six thousand feet does not sound so high to us Rocky mountain dwellers, but when you know that it is as timberline for this region, it is pretty high. The Swiss have a great fashion of posting a village on every alpine meadow & of cutting off the vegetation for hay. It gives rather an eerie feeling to see houses & churches against the sky line, high in the air. It is all of a piece, however, with the necessity of making everything count & cabbage patches or potatoes or hay occupy every available foot of ground. I must go back a little & fill up the gap, though there was not much to tell of Zürich , which is, of general interest. Elsie would have been pleased with the swimming. I think everyone in Zürich must swim. We would see hordes of small boys, or small groups of maidens, hurrying at any time of day with towel & suit to any of the many bath-houses. Also heads bobbing about near there, or
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Rights
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