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Title
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Letters, Aug. 14th, 1911_002
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Alternative Title
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Letters, Aug. 14th, 1911
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Date
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Aug. 14th, 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 dimness. We had a most delightful time in Cambridge . The Tansbys have a comfortable typical rambling country home, with a large garden, three children, who were away at the seashore, & five servants. Our stay with them, before the botanists arrived was spent quietly, tho’ there was someone in to dinner, lunch, or afternoon tea in the garden, nearly every day. Everybody in Cambridge “loconates” by means of bicycles, so when we had to go the 2 1/2 miles in to town to dinner or sight-seeing, we went luxuriously in a carriage. We had, of necessity, but a hurried glimpse of the famous old colleges, but what we saw gripped with intensity. The post-cards I enclose will give an idea of their beauty, but not their charm of antiquity. August 15th: Between Edinburgh & Perth . (Continued) We were feasted right royally at Cambridge . Besides, the Tansby home dinners were official dinners for the party. A lunch, at one of the colleges (Emmanuel) the college of John Harvard & after which he modelled Harvard, a dinner for the men alone at St. John’s, where no woman has yet been allowed to dine, i.E. in the “Combination room.” This was given by Prof. Blackman the steward
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Rights
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