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Title
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Letters, July 12th, 1911_019
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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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idea of the trip. I was so glad to find that Fritz felt as strongly as I did that it did not pay. If we had known what it was to be, we surely never would have done it. As it is, no Rocky mountain trip can now seem hard, & I shall even climb Long’s Peak again with cheerfulness. When Professor S. announced that he had “bad news” because of the final excursion of about a week, which he had planned & which we were looking forward to was “off,” we inwardly rejoiced because it doubtless meant the same experiences repeated & long-drawn out with “sleeping on the hay” & travel over glaciers included. The reason for this is a cattle disease which has broken out in the region to be covered & which is so easily spread by tourists carrying the infected dust from place to place that the government forbids any travel where the disease exists. So here we are settled for the time remaining before the British trip in the highest village in Switzerland , which is inhabited all the year round & which contains the highest chapel in the world! It is a beautiful spot, above timberline, on a green slope encircled
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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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