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she seems to think the most of. Th? one we like f/> most is badly handicapped with his family. however, she is ynu.nr vet "?nd there are others................
The^ original "RECC'LI	yctt	in	t?*e	handwriting	of	piv
grandmother (Fr^nc^s Standard Fowler) -- the first nart as dictated to her '}r her mother ('Tancy Kibbe Standard), the latter of her own life --	in a naper-bound Com-
position book of the tvoe used, by school children. This vras most unfortunately iost v-hen my mother (-\nna.Fowler Day) was taken to the hospital from, the tr?in in Jacksonville, Fla.. She had it in a ??Tripper" overnite bar, --she treasured it so always kept it close, never out of her sipht -- sPonp *-*ith a- tiny radio, hers ?nd Don?s night clothes, tooth brushes, etcv to be Vent with her in the train compartment. It was put into the ambulance with her; the ambulance driver paid he put down at the emergency entrance of the hospital (^t. luke?s), and someone T"ust have stolen it, thinking it ^erhans a doctor?s bar containinr narcotics. I tried in every possible way -- advertised offerinr q ror?-?r^, contacted railroad ?uthorityes, and ^sked the "osnital. to keep a look-out for it -- hut it wns ne^er found. Tost fortunately, ^owever, several. "rears '?'ofnre, Mother had rotten Daul (?-?].i sabth ? s husband) to t.y^e several conies of it, which were r*iven to me, Elisabeth, ond 7" believe one to Dolores and either1 ^unt Dot nr ^unt Frank. ry o,trn copy now, fro^ all T can rather is the only one left, --don?t know what the others d | >) with theirs,but J have, like T'other, pu^rded mine with ea^le e^s and am now making several conies so thnt th? historTr, at least, won?t be lost entirely.
There are a number of in^s concerned 1 nth the or:-ri nal diary which J an doin^ research on at present; and J will add the find-?nr-s of ,,rork along these lines when my research ^as nrorre??ed further.
Dorothea D.qv J'artin /
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