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Stoughton April 26th 1949

Dear Doris

This day has been cooler than yesterday 50° early after our shower of last night. it thundered several times so they must have got it not very far distant. most of our showers go around but when we get one its a good ripper. Our trees are just leaving out this month theres been constant rains, which has been the means of bringing things forward. our little peach tree out in the front yard is pink with its flowers & the clove bush is in bloom. the forcythias are in their prime. that snapdraggon that Elizabeth Southworth (boquet) sent me, lasted three weeks. the longest of any flowers I ever had and were all colors.

Addie Ballantine came over from Braintree to take Mrs Barry to spend the day with them Friday. she went. they have a very small house but while she was gone, there was an old couple came here to see her. he was blind. Careta married Neal Williams their son. they live here in the village in Bertha Thompson's house. she that was Bertha Ballou, up three flights of stairs. Careta got them the tenement, it was hard to find a place for them. They stayed two hours. long enough to get rested. I took her around & showed her the rooms down stairs. Mrs Barry had called on them in their home downtown. she said she was sorry she wasn't here when they came.