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Jean Adams, who is a dear lives in [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] a lovely big house far up over the harbor surrounded by tall trees through which you see the water and inhabited by two dear old people. The man was a ship-builder and his den is absolutely filled with novels, books, pamphlets, portfolios, treatises, albums, scrap-books, etc- all pertaining to ships and ship-building and whaling- He is most interesting- is one of