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Walden, May, outgoing, mostly to children, May Walden correspondence, 1933-1941

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Title Walden, May, outgoing, mostly to children, May Walden correspondence, 1933-1941

Creator Walden, May, 1865-1960

Date 1933-1941

Language English

Subjects Depressions, Mothers and daughters, Socialist Party (U.S.)

Description Forms part of the Midwest Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library).

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription 4/ landing fields, and every other thing you can think of, and all spick and span, painted, varnished, scrubbed, raked, etc. etc. It is a truly wonderful place. Most of the tourists are elderly people, many of them cripples, or bearing the marks of hard work, middle class, retired farmers, trades people, ministers and their widows, etc. etc. (The burden is the widow of a Methodist minister, named Todd. One of the outstanding things I saw was a private collection of shells from every coast in the world, housed in a large shop where curios and absurd articles made from shells were sold. I saw 300 lb conch shells from the Indian Ocean. I saw the shell of a snail that lives on trees in Brazil that closes a leaf like a nest, and lays an egg like a bird. The egg was white, about the size of a robin's egg, maybe a trifle larger. There were darts from the tail of the sting ray fish,

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Archival Collection Title May Walden papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Walden M Box 4 Folder 134

BibID 991703478805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020, Transcribe: complete

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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