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the lamentable situation than she. She is investigating every new thing presented & bent on finding some way out. Her faith in Florida is unshaken though her sympathies are stirred by the distress of the many who have lost.
Mar. 11. Mr. May is at work for Mrs. S. "10" has been grubbed out, now "60" too. Mrs. S. is corresponding with nurserymen & everyone who has any information she wants about her work. A prisoner on her chair, she is superintending with great vigor the work she is having done. She has had trees put out on the "home place" & the whole put in order. She is having cassava planted particularly to help the industry. She is the first to put out camphor trees. She thinks & plans with the life & interest of the past. She is just trying to walk a