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Title
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Letters, Sept 3rd, 1911_004
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Alternative Title
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Letters, Sept 3rd, 1911
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Date
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Sept 3rd, 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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4 until they have had it, or would be unbearably cross if they did. Perhaps it is the same feeling I have when forced to do without my quota of water! “All habit.” But, if one is to be bound by habit one should see to it that the habit is a good one, & as between tea & water, I think there is small room for doubt. Monday evening: We enjoyed a rare treat for us land lubbers to-day , in the shape of a naval display. We went about the battleship “Revenge” in the harbor at two o’clock — several hundred of the members of the British Association & were then taken out to the “Exercise Grounds” at the mouth of the harbor where the manoevers were executed. The day which had threatened a little cleared off, & the sea had enough white caps on to be beautiful & to make small boats which followed bob & dance about merrily. The ironclad was as steady as a rock: I wish all ocean liners were! After we had come to anchor, the show was opened by ten or a dozen torpedo boats. These are low, ugly black things, which you-all have seen pictures often. Their part was to attack our vessels with torpedoes. These were immense steel cigar-shaped affairs which were shot through the waters, their course being marked at the surface of the sea by a pale
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Rights
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To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
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