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This letter was written by Dr. Jack Ullman physicist + ex-son-in-law of D.H.B. after the death of her daughter Doris, former wife of Ullman

11/3/74

Dear Mrs. Blake:
It is a long time since we have written to you. I do want to keep in touch with you, though, and I was reminded of this in oddest way today. Little Esther was playing in the basement while Carol was down there doing the laundry, and Esther got at the things in the bookcase down there and distributed them all over the floor. While I was picking them up I came upon the pamphlet that is enclosed with this letter. I don't know where we got it from. It must come from one of our many trips to Tanglewood, where we go to hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It describes an organization that was started by Charles Eliot (the son of the Charles Eliot who was president of Harvard) to save some Massachusetts land for public use. I thought of that land you own which the real estate developers were harrassing you about. If you were to will that land to this organization, generations of people near Stoughton would have you to thank for a place to go and enjoy the wilderness.
This moves me particularly because the best times Doris and I had together were in the wilderness. I remember her taking me through land near Stoughton where the woods had grown up over old abandoned farms and you could find the old stone fences and even the foundations of a farmhouse. She always loved that. In her last letter to you she wrote about how she wanted to go back there and pick berries. All the privately owned land there is going to be turned