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Stoughton June 12th 1933

Dear Doris

It is warm with a good deal of air stirring any one could keep comfortable out of the hot sun. I have been out in the garden transplanting my dozen & a half tomatoes. & some seedlings in the flower beds. things are growing good since the rain. I have got Pa to change into his clean clothes & got the others on the line to gather with mine it is a fine day for drying. my roses are in bloom. lots of old fashioned white are scattered around in different places but there is not much left of the old general Jack I am afraid another winter will exterminate it altogether. as I was going down to get my book Evelyn & her mother were sitting out on their piazza alone. so I went over & they seemed pleased to have me. Mrs Drake has only been home but a few days & was operated on. she is very thin. they injected some thing into her back that numbed her. so they could operate & took out a sack full of water (a risk) as Evelyn called it no cancer or growth of any sort. Erving is their doctor. she realized their operating all through. on account of her other trouble they could not etherize her. so I think her courage was pretty great. all the water she took went

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