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home covered with mud and green slime. Frog eggs are sitting around in dishes all over the house, Maud said.
Edith Wayland has told Pa that she knows your Wilson Popenoe, that [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] one of his relatives married a Canton relative of hers. Isn’t it odd how small the world is – especially for such as Edith!
Charlie Sweinfurt & Hubbard were in their glory together today trying to out talk each other. He likes to be the one ahead, but he can’t beat C. S.’s length of words. In regard to cataloging I told F Tracy that soon he would beat Millspaugh, and he evidently appreciated the allusion. He lives out near Longwood Sta. in the Fenway. His stenographer is a Smith girl, and knows Bertha Reynolds. Today she invited me to lunch with her, and we had a good time. Some of the Bussey students go to the same place, - one, whose name is Anderson, comes from the Univ. of Mich and his father is a prof. there. He is a wide awake little chap of about 20.
Your mother called me up last night, and today she asked me to go to the May party – but I'm going to bed instead. She is eager to hear from you, but I told her we mustn’t expect a letter for another week. I'm anxious to hear too, - it is such a long while, a whole week. 

Doris.

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Stoughton Mass
5 May 1919.

Dear Sid:
I am wondering where your ship is bearing you, and what strange seas you are looking upon this warm New England twilight. Perhaps you have reached Cuba, - it is lacking a day of the week, since you left.

To-day was my first day at the Bussey. I reached there at 9 and left at 1 o'clock. The golden robins and swallows are here, and this morning the orioles were making the spring ache in one's bones, with their calling.

Hubbard is master of huge cataloging mechanism there, and is just small enough a man to revel in it. He has the typical Cambridge finickiness, while poor Charlie S. represents its fingertip
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