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Title
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Letters, Sept 10th, 1911_004
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Alternative Title
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Letters, Sept 10th, 1911
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Date
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Sept 10th, 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 by the time we had finished our sight-seeing walk. After we saw the Tansleys off in the taxicab, I scooted for the shops & revelled in piles of gloves, at 50 cents to a dollar a pair for long, white kid! Then I picked Fritz up at Mr. Chick’s office where I had left him reading, & got him excited over gloves. He finished by getting seven pairs at half & less than he pays at home. We got them in an Irish linen store & the clerk tempted me into buying some fine handkerchiefs & tried to get me to look at table linens. Those, however, are dutiable, so I resisted the temptation. It was exceedingly hard to leave all the fascinating shops, but they will doubtless be there next time. Friday, we spent with the Cowles & Professor Schrüter at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew . These are beautiful, despite the honed-up grass & most interesting. We were delighted to find Dr. & Mrs. Britton there. I felt just a little hurt when Mrs. B . greeted me, with the rest of the party, by a hand-shake but she quite made up for it later, in the privacy of her own room at
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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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