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They took Nellie Standish home yesterday. she is so blind she has hard work to tell a diamond from a heart. but they pity her & Careta has her up there a week at a time. every little while. those persimmons I sent up a box of them to Careta also a boquet of my chrysanthemums she was so pleased with the flowers, she came in to thank me personally. I gave a boquet to Maude last night she likes flowers. Mrs B had company come to see her Tuesday great friends, they came from Braintree wealthy people she used to know them. they go to N York winters & pay $85 a month for a room in the Hotel shut up there house in B. Dennis Toomey is having his leaves raked up & burned & wish some one would do mine. all of Ballentines come over on my lawn so I have a terrible looking place. the sun is clouding for a change in temperature perhaps and its growing cool I have picked a boquet of flowers as they are liable to freeze. they are very pretty & a great variety. there is a very dark mottled one very double I wish you might see them. hope they stand the winter Ralph says he began a letter to Sidney the first of October & thinks by Christmas he be able to get it he has carried it around in his pocket. the death of Lottie Cranes mother is in to nights Transcript after a sickness of nine weeks the poor woman has died at last she was my age we don't die until our time comes thats certain. Ma   

Transcription Notes:
Lady's name is "Careta" - often spoken about in Ma's letters.