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Title
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Letters, July 25th, 1911_001
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Alternative Title
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Letters, July 25th, 1911
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Date
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July 25th, 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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1 Chur: Between trains. Phew what a “hotness!” Even the mountains can be warm when at a low enough altitude. When we took the train at Samada , this morning the thermometer registered 86° & it must be more now. The snow-mountains in the distance certainly looked cool, but here can put ices inside of us, tho ices & ice-cream are very uncommon elsewhere. Let’s see: where did I leave the chronicle? At Avers Cresta , I believe. We had sent on our baggage & decided to walk the twenty miles down the road, over which we had passed up to Avers . On Sunday, two very pleasant Germans from Berlin — he a specialist in children’s diseases — she, his adoring wife — suggested that we join them in their tramp the other way round. We considered the plan & finally consented, since it would cover entirely new ground in the Upper Engadine & Bernina part of Switzerland — some of the most famous [bits?] . We said good-bye to [our?] English acquaintance with real [regret?] & started off [bright?] & early. Monday morning, each with a nice fat knapsack on his back. Now, a fat knapsack is quite a different proposition from a flabby one which contains just a sweater & I felt as tho’ I were pulling a whole
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Rights
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