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it. Afterwards Paul & his wife joined us and he took us all over the house from cellar to attic, showing the great hand sewn beams and the big closet - some he has turned into bathrooms. The rooms are furnished colonial style with old pieces and with many treasures that he has collected all over the world in his lifetime. His wife is a practicing physician in Wash. and I guess has helped financially a lot. She has good taste in her part of it. Then we went outside and Paul took us down the pebbled walk leading us to woods and a dammed up hook, and he has brought in all sorts of wild shrub & flowers from everywhere about, rare things that he enjoyed showing to Sid, lot of rhododendrons, azaleas, laurel, little wild flowers. He lingered along pointing out all his plants. It was misting and I was afraid Helen would catch cold - but none of the rest of us minded at all. When we came back he took us to his greenhouse and to this flower garden...while we were there Mr. Prible arrived. He is the one we visited up in New Hampshire 2 summers ago. We all went about together and then into the house again, & finally departed about 4 o'clock. Sid was glad that we had gone after all tho he had been about ready to call it off because of the weather.

Helen brought me a letter from Amy. I will enclose it and also an addressed envelope so you can return it to Helen. You can see how busy Amy is and how the Leonard family seems to be migrating after her - the ones she speaks of are mostly Dick's children, - Mary & Tom, and Stella, Dick's wife. Of course Isabel is Elizabeth's girl who has a job there, and Lonnie is Natalie's husband, (Amy's daughter). 

Now I must get a little supper for Sid who is hungry again.

Doris