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Title
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Letters, Sept 3rd, 1911_010
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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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10 me there was but an inch of water in the tank & they would have to move when that gave out! Our party reach the house about one & were full of interest & questions, at finding us in the drawing room to receive them! We had a most delicious luncheon — twenty-four of us. I sat at the right hand of our host, a very pleasant, nice-faced man of about forty. Our hostess, not knowing us, has settled the important (?) matter of precedence by having her husband & the Baron draw cuts for the two American ladies. Mrs. Cowles is awfully jealous about small matters of this sort & she gives other credit for possessing the same pushing tactic she has. After lunch, our host asked me to take the front seat, next to him in the leading automobile, for a trip over the estate. Mrs. Cowles quite “riled” me later by insinuating that I had had the cheek to pick this place of my own accord! She’s awfully good medicine for me, but I can only stand small doses. It pleases me immensely when she tries Fritz almost to the breaking point, because he is apt to give me fatherly advice when I ge express my opinions of her. He has also come around to the same opinion I formed the second time I had met her, but is has taken him a long time. However, it is not likely I will see much if anything of her again until the
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Rights
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