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It has begun to rain to night.  Amy has just been here with Baretas little dog he is a holy terror we thought he would drive us crazy + Mrs Barry told her not to bring him again he made me crazy + he did her too so she said she would'nt. she says Bareta has crying spells. Mrs B + I think she will be like her mother sometime. there is a woman who is turning her against her friends + she has an influence over Bareta a dangerous friend. She is Mrs Mason who took us down to vote. an old flame of her brother
Ma

Stoughton November 8th 1936
Dear Folks
We are having it warmer + cloudy no rain as yet snow up north though. if the weather turns colder I will have [[Boleord?]] come to put on my outside windows its time.
The Harringtons spoke of coming to take us up to see the Bronze tablet the Christian Sciences have put on the boulder, but his mother being sick, he has driven into Boston instead. they will probably move in, as soon as she can find a job. they have let the house to someone she knows + will store her furniture upstairs.
Emily has been cleaned up by some of Joe [[Bapens?]] folks as I hear. poor thing a great pity she has to live there all by her lonesome I think Joe may look after her, he is king hearted + nothing else to do his wife does not care to go to Florida winters. her family draw her here Gertrude lives in the house on the same street in what was the old Methodist Parish + Annie [[Leaches?]] school.
Lottie Brane was reading her Holmes genealogy (grandma Holbrook, Elises grandma, was a Holmes.) so she called me up to ask me how Arthur was related to Rebeca Standish. I told her through the Bapens, she was Rebecca Bapen before she married