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Title
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Letters, July 20th, 1911_002
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Alternative Title
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Letters, July 20th, 1911
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Date
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July 20th, 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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2 The guests are elderly or middle aged — very sedate. We get up courage occasionally to try conversation & succeed fairly well. In fact, this morning, we wandered back from our walk down the valley, with two gray-heads, & got along beautifully. We explored an ancient, musty old house in the neighborhood — built 1664, with iron gratings over the windows a Latin inscription over the door, & quaint ceiling decorations within. It must have been quite fine once upon a time. These old old castles & ruins have so taken hold of our fancy that we are already planning two summers & the winter between to be spent this side of the water digging into history & legend & learning our languages by the laboratory method. This will probably be in 1915 (spring), so all who wish to join this “culture tour,” please begin to save your pennies: it will be ‘most as cheap, as staying at home. We are here, almost at the source of the Rhine & on the way were some very, very old ruins & castles; at one point the famous road to Spluegen branched off over which “Roman cohorts, the knightly hosts & pilgrim throngs of the Middle Ages” marched. One of the finest ruins, hundred of feet above the road, on a rocky cliff, is said to have been founded by King Rhaeticus 600 B.C.! Dry history becomes a living thing when studied “on the spot.” In the valley itself is a quaint old chapel, bearing the
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Rights
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