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letter written in blue ink Shaker Rd written in pencil Wyman Drive

                                                                                                                               Canterbury, NH 03224
                                                                                                                               August 11, 1978

Dear Jack,

    The Post-Dispatchunderlined story arrived fine & you were correct

to aim your letter of July 11 at Canterbury. We've been up here in the wilds since June 19 - And you are quite right about the wildwood reclaiming the acreage. We keep a fair amount mowed (handpushed power motor) & nearly a quarter- acre in garden. But the rest of the 5 acres, much of which the cow controlled when we had her, keeps slipping back into brambles & trees. Every few years I hack some of it back, but never come close to catching up. We'll probably stay here through Sept this year because I don't go back to teaching till January. Sept is awfully nice here : often crisp, chilly nights, & days up to 80 degrees. And the damned bugs generally have let up by then (mosquitoes & deer flies most particularly).

  We do have zucchini, 2 hills. It has been slow, but

the yellow summer squash has done fairly well. The whole garden has been only so-so. We've had terrible weather : consistently muggy, yet no rain, almost all of July. Then even more consistently muggy withunderlined rain (& no sun) the