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garden and yesterday I picked half a bore of large strawberries. I think there will be more today as they are just beginning to ripen. I bought some at the door yesterday for eight cents a box and put up three pints. I mean to put up a few more. Your plants are all out on the piazza and that little begonia is in bloom. The pansies are fast lovely, we have pulled up the chrysanthemums that were choking them and Claire picked a hundred and twenty-one blossoms this morning. There are some new kinds that I had not noticed before. We received the paper containing the notice of Frank Hughes death and his portrait. We read it and sent it to Johnny with the plan. We will send you a bundle of your papers today. We shall be very glad of the gauze undershirts and medicines. I took some Aconite the other day after hoeing in the garden in the hot sun till my face was

written sideways in the top margin a good deal. Carl Baily and Roy Oliver Washburn Mr Pellon and his wife and Dr Harris and wife are in Chicago this week We hear that the Parkinson's are to move away soon and