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Title
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Letters, July 12th, 1911_015
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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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rain & the fog made the way very slippery & to my mind dangerous. The under-professor with the party, a very heavy man & with insufficent nails slipped once at the start & so with three of the less experienced young men, left the top & made the descent directly to the valley. The objective was Montalier t round, grassy summit in the distance at the end of the arrête . At one particularly rocky & steep part, the fog rushed over & I sat down with trembly knees, saying I would not go any further. Fritz sat too. (Isn’t it fortunate that we are about equal in these matters?) As it happened, the professor had decided that way too bad a way too & we all turned back a ways & proceeded lower down the slope. This was all mud & shaly rock & very slippery, but we made it. Then farther along the top,
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Rights
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