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letterhead Frederick A. Blossom Bertie Lee Blossom

                                   BELLAMY FARMS

Summer address | Winter address Macedonia, R.F.D. 3 ✓ | R.F.D. 1 Clarkesville, Ga | East Palatka, Fla.

                                                                   12/8/57

Dear May, I am very sorry not to have been able to answer your dear letter more promptly. Recently our troubles, as Shakespeare put it, have come "not single spies but in battalions" and we have been hard pressed for time to cope w/ them. We have tried, these past four years, to be good neighbors & [crossed out: frie] good friends to a dozen or so folk. In a couple of cases,

letterhead From each according to his ability -- To each according to his needs