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Hardison in occasional letters through the spring and summer gave an account of the planting of his garden, the progress of it, and the fruition. He continues his activity in the Boston Insurance Company as a director, serving on the committee having in charge recently acquired real estate.

Ely's activity in economic research is unabated. The following paragraphs are from a letter dated July 25, 1940.

"I enclose with this a leaflet that givesa report of what I have been doing in thepast three years and a program for the future. I know you will read this with interest.

"As you know I am living at Lyme, Connecticut, where I have a place of about teracres of land and my wife is becomingskillful farmer. We have a splendid gardenand are now putting up vegetables anfruits for the winter.

"I wonder if you could not sometime in,the near future come down and see us?"

Mrs. Kenerson Anderson is at her summer home at Litchfield, Me.; her time partly spent touring the region wit friends and acquaintances. On her tab! are copies of The History of Litchfield and A Novelist's Tour of the World, by Ibanez. These volumes she consults daily

She had the good fortune to be one of the company who made the world tour with Ibanez. Turning from contemporary literature she takes up Dickens.

Secretary, 411 High St., West Medford, Mass