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Letter #19

very slight evidence and may be entirely wrong, but one can easily see that the masses here although much poorer are immensely happier than in our country.  One logical reason therefor is because their necessities are so very much less.  One sees in the interior thousands of families thinking along with all of their earthly possessions on their shoulders and heads including children too young to walk.  And these people are not beggars, but substantial workers walking often a hundred or miles to some new field of work- happy cheerful and even gay

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