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Title
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Letters, July 25th, 1911_003
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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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3 our (doubtless) funny German. I will enclose a card, showing this trip & save any descriptions otherwise necessary & tiresome. Later: I have packed the pictures where I cannot easily get them. & This writing piecemeal is very unsatisfactory, but the best I can do. Julia would do it so much better. To “ resoom backwards”: on the other side of Statterberg Pass we pas saw a man of prophet-like aspect and pose waiting with a scrubbing-brush, and pail of antiseptic to wash the shoes of all travellers from the opposite direction, in order to prevent the spread of the “hoof & mouth disease” among the cattle there into the next valley. Since we were going from an uninfected valley, we did not require cleaning. At the bottom of the valley, we concluded that to ride up the long, warm road to the top of the next slope would be pleasanter than trudging it. So, since the post coach was already occupied, Dr. Misch succeeded in getting a “by-wagon” made up for us & then amused himself & us trying to converse to the coachman in Italian, as he proved to be of this nationality. The top of this pass (Julier) was hemmed in by rugged
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Rights
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