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just as you suggested. Then I visited five, but with no result. Yesterday, when I was in I visited 2 others - (The Home Savings wouldn't give me any information - the first to refuse me, by the way) I went to the bank commissioner's office and the comptroller's at the State House also, - all with no result. To-day I wrote a letter to Mr. Goddard, the  executor, and 2 more to banks, but I am rather afraid we shall find nothing. Some of Mrs. Pettengill's relatives are Dawsons. Lord John Dawson was exiled to Canada from England for fighting a duel. Mrs. P's grandmother's part of the fortune was 7½ millions and some have died since, so it would be more. It is in chancery in England, of course. I only wish Miss Dawson had some of it now. She also came from one of the provinces, so I think is possibly related.

I got a very lovely woolen scarf from Washington, D.C. the other day. I suppose it came from Doris in anticipation 

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