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Title
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Letters, Aug. 19th, 1911_003
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Alternative Title
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Letters, Aug. 19th, 1911
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Date
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Aug. 19th, 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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very places described in “Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush”, the Lady of the Lake” Macbeth” & some of Scott’s works. Of course, everywhere, are traces of “Queen Mary” the lakes among the wooded hills are charming. At the Birman Hotel at Dunkeld , just as we were finishing dinner, there was a sudden wild burst of weird music & a genuine Highlander in kilts walked in playing the bag-pipes. It was a revelation in the way of bag-pipe music. Our leader had gotten this man to come a long ways from the Duke of Alhull ‘s estate to play for us! The most beautiful castle I have seen is in a lovely valley near there & we saw its owner on the road! — a real lord! Thrillin’! And I almost ran into him & his “lady” the next day at Lawers where their car stopped for tea. But I’m “agin ’em.” I don’t believe in a few “bloated ‘ristocrats” owning every foot of this beautiful land , while the poor are “ground under foot.” They say that a thriving chicken industry was started near Manchester , but the expense necessary to keep a man continually in the field to protect the chickens from raids of the foxes which
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Rights
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