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Arl. 27 Aug. 1951

Dear Doris,

Got your letter of Friday & your Sat. card today. I wasn't able to find your brown address book - could you have taken it up with you? - but fortunately Dot had Lena's address (263 Auburn St. [[strikethrough]] Auburn [[/strikethrough]] Auburndale), so I have written her as you suggested, and given her your tel. number.

Robt. Beals is one possibility if he would consent to live in civilization for the winter. But how much carpentering work could he get at that season, I wonder? He is, no doubt, not a union man and would not be able to do any but individual jobs, which would probably not be easy to break into. It would be well to write him, however.

I hate to board up the windows & shut the place up. It is bound to deteriorate inside. And it seems wasteful to keep it vacant and shut up all year for the sake of 2 or 3 weeks in the summer. Why not rent it to a decent party not blessed with children? It would keep the place & house in better condition and the rent, which could not be less than $350 - 400, would more than pay for any vacation we might want to take in various parts of New England or elsewhere. Perhaps we could at last indulge in a western trip by car.

I get [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] my breakfasts and most of Doris' and leave the alarm to wake her at 7:15. She

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