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Eve Drewelowe travel correspondence, 1928-1929
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household utensils, foods, statuary and trivals. The most interesting phaze of all however, is the plaster casts which have been made from skeletons together with the holes left after the flesh has decayed. You see the lava came and cemented the bodies into rocky substance. The flesh decayed but the bones remained. The flesh of course left the imprint and the form and the position of the body at the time of burial. So much for our sightseeing. Last Monday we moved to Rome. I got up just long enough to make the change. We were very uncomfortably located in Naples - no heat and very poor food - so we though in the end that the change would be the most advisable. This is a little more expensive but will be worth that to us - we can't get along on any less than just so much and I believe that this is about the [minimum?], or should be. I probably would have been still worse had we stayed in Naples. And that reminds me that you are going to pass another mile-stone soon after you receive this
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household utensils, foods, statuary and trivals. The most interesting phaze of all however, is the plaster casts which have been made from skeletons together with the holes left after the flesh has decayed. You see the lava came and cemented the bodies into rocky substance. The flesh decayed but the bones remained. The flesh of course left the imprint and the form and the position of the body at the time of burial. So much for our sightseeing. Last Monday we moved to Rome. I got up just long enough to make the change. We were very uncomfortably located in Naples - no heat and very poor food - so we though in the end that the change would be the most advisable. This is a little more expensive but will be worth that to us - we can't get along on any less than just so much and I believe that this is about the [minimum?], or should be. I probably would have been still worse had we stayed in Naples. And that reminds me that you are going to pass another mile-stone soon after you receive this
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