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@alice_austen:person {full_name: "Elizabeth Alice Austen", birth: @date_1866, death: @date_1952, occupation: "photographer", location: @staten_island_new_york}
@ralph_munroe:person {full_name: "Ralph Munroe", occupation: "photographer, sailor", location: @poromont_grove_florida}
@alice_austen_house:organization {type: "museum", location: @staten_island_new_york}
@poromont_grove_florida:place {city: "Poromont Grove", county: "Dade Co.", state: "Florida", country: @united_states}
@staten_island_new_york:place {borough: "Staten Island", city: "New York City", state: "New York", country: @united_states}
@alice_austen_correspondence_with_ralph_munroe:collection {creator: @ralph_munroe, institution: @alice_austen_house, created: @date_1894_12_09, language: "en", subjects: ["Personal correspondence","Victorian social life","Florida","Housekeeping","Family visits","Music"], description: "Letters from Ralph Munroe to Alice Austen in December 1894 discussing domestic life in Florida, family visits, and musical instruments.", place: [@poromont_grove_florida, @staten_island_new_york]}
@letter_1894_12_09_1:document {type: "letter", author: @ralph_munroe, recipient: @alice_austen, date: @date_1894_12_09, location: @poromont_grove_florida, content_summary: "Describes perfect weather, housekeeping, silverware, and greetings to Miss Words and the home family"}
@letter_1894_12_09_2:document {type: "letter", author: @ralph_munroe, recipient: @alice_austen, date: @date_1894_12_09, location: @poromont_grove_florida, content_summary: "Mentions chaotic state after September gale, lack of bananas and limes, Bentons painting the Susie, hauling a baby piano damaged at sea, and news about Miss Ward and President St."}
@ralph_munroe -> wrote -> @letter_1894_12_09_1
@ralph_munroe -> wrote -> @letter_1894_12_09_2
@alice_austen -> corresponded with -> @ralph_munroe {when: @date_1894_12_09, via: [@letter_1894_12_09_1, @letter_1894_12_09_2]}
@letter_1894_12_09_1 -> mentions -> @poromont_grove_florida
@letter_1894_12_09_2 -> mentions -> @poromont_grove_florida
@benton_family:organization {type: "family"}
@susie:person {full_name: "Susie"}
@benton_family -> painting -> @susie
@benton_family -> hauling -> @baby_piano:object {type: "piano", condition: "damaged at sea"}
@miss_ward:person {full_name: "Violet M.E. Ward"}
@letter_1894_12_09_2 -> mentions -> @miss_ward
@nelly:person {full_name: "Nelly"}
@letter_1894_12_09_2 -> mentions -> @nelly
@steainway_piano:object {type: "Steinway piano"}
@letter_1894_12_09_2 -> discusses -> @steainway_piano
@file_pinax -> documents -> @alice_austen_correspondence_with_ralph_munroe:collection {created: @date_1894_12_09, description: "Metadata record for the collection"}
@file_1894_12_9_ralph_munroe_dec_9001_copy_jpg -> contains -> @letter_1894_12_09_1
@file_1894_12_9_ralph_munroe_dec_9002_copy_jpg -> contains -> @letter_1894_12_09_2down here is consummated what are the prospects? The weather is simply perfect, elephant breezes blowing & things generally too lovely (as the girls say), for anything of Dan & I am keeping house in the Bar nachle in great style. Copper Kettle & silverware shining like a majestic heel, even the windows are clean & beds made occasionally. With best regards to the Miss Words & the home family yours as ever Ralph Poromont Grove Dade Co. 2/4 Dec. 9th My dear Alice, Now what have I done or not done to get many a letter from you uns since since the one at St. Augustine months ago? I wrote you from Sewalls Point on the Indian River & suggested this point for you next but I suppose you wanted to be sure that I had arrived before wasting time & paper & I should have written
you soon as we got here only things were in such a chaotic state resulting from the Sep. gale that took our coats right off & have been hard at work ever since so as to be presentable when our friends & relations arrive, no bananas for several months to come & but few limes. Royal palm leaves rather ragged & new what if not yet complete otherwise we are fair to middling. The Bentons are busy also painting the Susie & at this moment are in the next room over hauling our baby piano which last Spring had the misfortune of falling overboard on its way to a festive gathering. Sand & salt water are not conducive to good tone & effect in such instruments & I am afraid that little else but noise will ever be gotten out of it. I hear from Nelly that Miss Ward is back in town & that you have been over to President St. So conclude that wheels & boats are done for until next Spring myself included unless that trip
No children (leaf entity)