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in a little red & white flowered dress and a bright red sash and poke bonnet. 
The Girl Guides - Cathedral troup - came to church in their uniforms. 
After tea Dick & I walked up to Fort Charlotte. It is quite a climb up to the fort and I was pretty tired when I got there. We had a good view of the Grendadines & Kingstown even tho' it was a little hazy. The fort is now used as a lunatic asylum & I cant help but think what a severe place that is for such a thing. We didn't see any of the inmates but I heard them. If one of the signs over the door is to be believed I think the place would be anything but a good place to be "put away". The sign read "To female [[underlined]] cells [[/underlined]]".
The door was barred as if it were a dungeon. We had a little chat with the negro who is in charge, of the ship signaling station on top of the fort, and he allowed us to look thru' his spy glass to Kingstown. The fort was built, so it seems, to control the land, and it has little or no protection from the sea. Maybe ships weren't supposed to have that high & good ^[[insertion]] a [[/insertion]] range. The name of the town at the foot of fort Charlotte is Edinburgh. I came home quite tired but

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well pleased with the walk. 

[[underlined]] Monday, February 24 1936 [[/underlined]]
Children dear please dont sneeze
This is your Mother - your Aunt Louise - Imagine dreaming such a rime & waking up with it still in mind! Dick says if I'm not careful I'll be writing a second Kubla Kahn. 
Went over the the Post Office and gave them our forwarding address. Spent a good part of the early afternoon in the library. 
Nothing much in the evening. 

[[underlined]] Tuesday, February 25, 1936 [[/underlined]]
Dick packed 2 drawers of the trunk before he left this morning. He then went to town to pack his motor. I packed my part of the trunk so that it was ready to go by noon. Mr Hatch called to say that Mrs H. might not be able to make it this evening as she wasn't feeling any too well.
In the early afternoon I went to the post office and was pleasantly surprised to have some mail waiting for us. Among the bunch of mail was a Paly Times from Daddy. Some of the most interesting news notices were: - 
California is trying to bar penniless

Transcription Notes:
"Paly Times" - refers to Palo Alto High School? http://www.paloaltoonline.com/paly-gym/