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Contributed by New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library.
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May 5. 1918 Hurstpont - to Kings Park. 32
Well Billy. Perfect-day, Country
beautiful with blossoms, air pure
& sweet. Through the woods &
roads to the old farm, now we
are living there where Mother, Edwin
Brown & Edith spent the summers
when they were children.
Had a drink from the old well,
water pure & very cold. Billy
photographing the old house.
Had lunch in the woods nearby.
Then to Kings Park going near
the Sunken meadow a wide
Expanse of Salt-meadow lands
bounded by Sand-dunes on the
far north side & enclosed by
the hills.
Trailing arbutus still in sweet-
bloom and many Violet punctualia?