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Title
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Letters, July 25th, 1911_002
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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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2 cart-load, when I went up-grade. Nevertheless, it is undoubtedly the easiest way of carrying a load, & I never could have carried the same amount by hand. The little doctor raced along the first of the course, while we struck our steady mountain gait, with the usual result of overtaking everybody on the road & reaching the top of the Statterberg Pass, first & with good breath. Our companions proved very pleasant indeed. Mrs. Misch spent three months in England some time ago, learning the language & speaks very well, much to the confusion of her little husband, who makes brave attempts to the music of her laughter. Nevertheless, he is an accomplished linguist in several languages, could reel off poetry, jokes & riddles in them. He greeted us one evening with “very few can tell the Pecan from the Tucan,” etc. His wife says he always has his nose in a book even on the street, & she is afraid he will get “overrun.” She, like most German frauen is inclined to get fat & he makes her exercise & cut out sweets, saying be “I will not haf a big von.” So we beguiled the way with his funny English &
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Rights
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