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Cresson Pa. Monday August 27, 1917

My dear Francis
Your letters of the 22d & the 23d are here  I am so glad you are resting and getting better. I am glad you are resting your eyes and I hope are getting all the out of doors life possible. I wish your stay was going to be a little longer for I think that absence from study & work will do you good. I was interesting in your pleasure at the camping scene. I don't know what the exhibition is to be. I suppose a sort of county fair showing the results of farm work etc. with a little fun thrown in.

I am sorry Mrs Pettigrew will not dispose of her collection for had Mr. Evans secured it, it would have been kept together & later if explorations are made to story could be preserved intact. The evidence you tell of drawn from the old records in St. Louis [[insert]]is interesting[[/insert]]. I wish very much you had some data touching your Grandfather. I have always hoped you could track his life & his French ancestors in Canada & earlier in France. It is interesting to know something of ones forebears.

I have slept better the past two nights and I