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thanks for what I had done at the time of John's death. I never spoke in such a friendly way to the sworn enemy of my earlier days, before.

Ilga and I spent all yesterday afternoon in the Arboretum. We brought our suppers and ate them on the azalea hill amid the flaring bushes. Do you know Wilson of the Arboretum? He is an Englishman. He hailed us, "a pick up" and asked us if we were having 'high tea'. The lilacs are in full flower now.

Elizabeth Hoythas asked me to spend the weekend at Allston with her, - her father is in a hospital. I may go out Friday but shall ask her home here for Sunday night. And Mildred Metcalf called me up from Norwood to ask me over. So you see I am on the go the whole time.

We see Chan Capen and his 'widder' strolling past here occasionally, but that seems to be the only excitement hereabouts.



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Galls came down and got introduced and then took me up to see these different galls in his collection. He said that the galls in Central America were huge affairs compared with those up here. They grow chiefly on oaks.

While there Prof Brues came in and talked too. He said he had heard of you. He offered to show me his collection and also spoke of introducing me to his wife, who though rather hampered with children is interested in bugs and grasses. They go on collecting trips Saturdays only they have been on but one trip so far, on account of weather.

I have found three birds nests so far, - a catbird's at the Arboretum, a blue jay's, and a robin is setting on our front porch, and gets pretty pugnacious when anyone ventures out there. The nest is a marvel, - but I'll keep it till you come back.

Old "Marm McGarvey" as we used to yell at her, stopped me tonight as I came up the hill and sobbed out her 

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What do you do when the actual first page is on the right, and the second page is on the left? Do you actually write the second page (on right) first? --> people seem to handle it differently, from what I can see - I usually label the sides as a minimum gesture [[left side]] [[right side]]