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This must be returned to J.D.! Naples, Italy March 24, 1929. Dear John, Frieda and Family, Your interesting letter came to us exactly a month ago in Athens, having been forwarded from Boulder. Am sorry that you had so much trouble to reach us but am quite happy that you did take the chance. By now you must have our addresses and in case you haven't, I shall enclose them. We shall get mail much more quickly now than hither to so please keep on writing for the rest of the five months. Letters are so infrequent and we are always so anxious for a word from home- and besides we are still a long distance away in months. Tomorrow is our seventh month anniversary since we left our happy home - and the vast distances that we have come and the things that we have seen hardly seem to fit back into the seven months span. Its all like a great puzzel - the parts seem warped and refuse to go back into their respective places. They are crowded and bulge and protrude from every conceivable opening. I don't know that we can ever fit the picture back together again. This is our fourth day in Naples. We came here directly from Greece. Naples nestles in a semi-circle along the outline of the harbor - a rather pretty city but with a modern front. That is, the main streets are wide, well paved and clean but the back streets are narrow and more medieval. Most of the buildings line the blocks four or five stories high and practically all the people live in these buildings. Consequently when the streets are very narrow and the buildings as high as they are, light and sunshine cannot penetrate the homes as they should. The houses and roads are built right up the steep hillsides. It seems, almost, that they merely
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This must be returned to J.D.! Naples, Italy March 24, 1929. Dear John, Frieda and Family, Your interesting letter came to us exactly a month ago in Athens, having been forwarded from Boulder. Am sorry that you had so much trouble to reach us but am quite happy that you did take the chance. By now you must have our addresses and in case you haven't, I shall enclose them. We shall get mail much more quickly now than hither to so please keep on writing for the rest of the five months. Letters are so infrequent and we are always so anxious for a word from home- and besides we are still a long distance away in months. Tomorrow is our seventh month anniversary since we left our happy home - and the vast distances that we have come and the things that we have seen hardly seem to fit back into the seven months span. Its all like a great puzzel - the parts seem warped and refuse to go back into their respective places. They are crowded and bulge and protrude from every conceivable opening. I don't know that we can ever fit the picture back together again. This is our fourth day in Naples. We came here directly from Greece. Naples nestles in a semi-circle along the outline of the harbor - a rather pretty city but with a modern front. That is, the main streets are wide, well paved and clean but the back streets are narrow and more medieval. Most of the buildings line the blocks four or five stories high and practically all the people live in these buildings. Consequently when the streets are very narrow and the buildings as high as they are, light and sunshine cannot penetrate the homes as they should. The houses and roads are built right up the steep hillsides. It seems, almost, that they merely
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