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Title
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Letters, July 12th, 1911_013
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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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raincoats because of the showers & taking them off because of the sun which can be very warm indeed. Such a climb it has never, in all my twelve summer’s of mountain climbing, been my luck to make & I hope I’ll never have to do it again! Perhaps it would not have been so bad had it not rained, but the rock is so soft it weathers down to a fine soil & when this is wet it is muddy & slippery — not like our nice clean, safe gravel. The rocks too are flat shaly things which slip & slide treacherously & there are no friendly boulders embedded firmly into the earth, which one can grasp or get behind & get a resting spot. The last of the first grassy slope was so steep. I had to go up on all fours! There came, a more gradual one leading to the top, 7000 ft. The day was too foggy to permit of much view, but what we saw was not
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Rights
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To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
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