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[[left margin in red]] Xmas [[/left margin]]
Also each a full knitted woolen outfit, trousers and jacket and cap [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] and leggings for winter outfit which they soon tried in the [[red underline]] one foot deep snow [[/red underline]] on the hill full of joy. [[red underline]] Little Peter Roll [[/red underline]] was the most joyful of all. [[red underline]] He had a little bear and trumpet (cornet a piston) which he blows heartily. Brooksie has a boomerang [[/red underline]] which he quickly learned to throw so that it came back to him in the snow.  All left about 2 P.M [[red underline]] Dick took my trunk filled [[/red underline]] with plants etc to the station and I followed after a light supper by train. Took the new 10:20 P.M train which brings me in Miami (Atlantic Coast Line) at 7:20 AM.- I [[red underline]] feel happy to be the head of such a charming little family [[/red underline]] and all the grand children healthy and cheerful in body and mind 
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[[left margin and underlined in red]] Prof William Morton Wheeler [[/left margin]]
[[red underline]] full of promise for the future. [[/red underline]] 
[[underline]] Dec. 26 [[/underline]] On the train. Rainy and foggy few passengers
[[underline]] Dec. 27. [[/underline]] Rather cool weather. Andrew [[red underline]] Murray [[/red underline]] at the [[red underline]] Station [[/red underline]] with our waggon. Then warmer A happy day inspecting all plants and trees. - At Fairchilds found Professor [[red underline]] William Morton Wheeler, the entomologist whose book ^[[on ants]] inspired Maeterlinck. He knows Maeterlinck. [[/red underline]] He is here to recuperate for a couple of weeks. Is at the [[strikethrough]] Ed [[/strikethrough]] El Dorado. Pupin wants to come so went to engage a bungalow for him at El Dorado. Wired him prices and options, also [[strikethrough]] wante [[/strikethrough]] wrote him and several others letters. A ^[[very]] busy day. Everything look well at the Anchorage.
[[underline]] Dec. 28 [[/underline]] (Sunday) 48°F this morning but wind is shifting back to the East and gave us 66°F all day, pleasant