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and a fish chowder.  Mrs. B is looking forward to her vacation.

We must get the rest of the grass cut over at the old Place but it is so wet most of the time.

I hope the tomatoes are doing well down there.  They won't amount to much here, I fears vegetables are very high priced.  String beans 35₵ a lb. oranges 54₵ a dozen (little tiny ones). It breaks my heart to shop or try to.

Doris. 

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Stoughton Mass.
19 July 1945

Dear Sid:
I am glad you had such a restful weekend, but think you must have been staying up late to get so tired out.  Is it very hot?  Here we have such muggy weather.  It showers during the day, fogs up nights and is steamy most of the time.

We went to Cambridge yesterday. Doris spent the morning with the glass flowers doing French translation.  I put in 3 hours with the Le Conte collection.  When I got there Miss Bryant hadn't come, but Prof Bradley (Cornell) who has been there summers lately was there and he took me in and introduced me to the new head, Bequaert.  He is about my age or younger, a tall, 
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