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9 June 1972

Dear Doris,

I received your letter before I left 212 Seaver St. and was relieved that you are feeling fine again, and sorry that you had to have such a hard time altogether with the nose. Don't fall again. I'm doing my best not to. 

Yesterday I started home at 8 am and was in my house before 2, which is pretty good connections, but I was all tired out from hustling to make them so. I got most of the things I wanted to do done, including the clipping down 66 hundreds of maple seedlings all around the house and over across in the lot I kept back of the 290 Walnut St. house. I went to Cambridge one day and accomplished a lot there besides seeing the entomologists there and picked out some specimens to be sent to me to study. Another day Amy Leonard who was up from Sarasota,Fla. to see Elizabeth down at the Hut came up to spend an hour with me. I hadn't seen her for a long time.She has 2 great grandchildren. Her daughter Natilee lives with her. Another day Mrs Hepworth took me up to Dry pond to see my 11 acres and what was happening around them. There hasn't been a great amount of building that I could see any where beyond the main roads, but they have been putting a road above, which is still unpaved and which extends all the way parallel to the last paved road, and I got out of the car and went up to it, and there was a car coming along it with a man in it, and I went towards it and the man stopped and I asked about how far the road went, and he wanted to know if I was interested in buying a house up there and I told him I was more interested in knowing about my 11 acres of land there. I couldn't have met a better one to tell me about it then. He said he is the one who is developing the place now. He seems to be somewhat of a cripple as I noted a crutch beside him --  it may be just temporary, though. Anyhow he pointed to the other side and said my property was "up there" and he had a map of the whole place and suggested I come up and get it, but I said I was going home tomorrow and couldn't. He gave me his name (Iverson) and address in Dedham, and asked about buying the lot but I told him not now, that I wanted to hold it, and he said that he would work all around it, with roads and houses, and I told him that was the way I wanted it. But he is one who is ready to buy whenever I want to sell. I think that real estate of that sort is better to hold onto at present. I'll keep his name and address tho. Then Mrs. Hepworth tookme over to Norwood where I called on Mildred Metcalf who is older than I, and whom I haven't seen for years. She is all humped over and very old looking, and thinking of applying to go into an old folks home. I may never see her again, and I guess she thought so too. She treated us to icecream and cookies.
                  
I found everything all right at home, and most of my seeds coming up. And much warmer here than in Mass. I've got the lizard beside me in the sun, and tended to my mail, and am going home after lunch to have a nap and rest.

I trust all is well with you.
                            
With love,