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[[underlined]] May 27, 1907 [[/underlined]]

Left Washington ^[[insertion]] at 4 p.m. [[/insertion]] on B & O for California via St. Louis & El Paso

The season has been unusually cold and late all over the country.  A few early [[underlined]] roses [[/underlined]] are beginning to blossom & the peonies have just opened out today.  Wheat is a few inches high & corn is coming up in a few fields but is not all planted.  A few azaleas are still seen on cold slopes up toward Harpers Ferry.

Darkness came on before we reached Cumberland.

[[underlined]] May 28 [[/underlined]] - A cold night over the mountains.  I had to close the window over the screen.  A man from Texas who got up early before we were down into Ohio says there was white frost along the way.  I slept late and had breakfast as we came into Cincinnatti.  Here vegetation & crops are just as at Washington & no change was noticed to St. Louis except a little corn big enough to show the rows in southern Ill.  St. Louis at dark.