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3/24/02
pressed with the beauty of Walker's pictures by this light - and the stained glass. From the Library we rode back (in the "green car") to the White House and went in there past the numerous doorkeepers there and in the ante-room stair hall adjoining - which you must pass thro' to get into the big old East Room with its beautiful old shining glass chandiliers and yellow hangings over the many big deep windows and its portraits of Lincoln and Washington and Martha Washington and the big fire places and all. It was flooded with sunshine and looked pleasant enough - we went to the Southern window and looked out into the private grounds, where we saw young "Teddy" Roosevelt- Exactly like his picture - who hasn't been back to school since he was brought home in February sick with pneumonia. The littlest boy (Archibald?) was there too, and several large - sized policemen. From "the historic mansion" we walked out to the State Dept. but did not see Washington's famous sword there (it had gone to Charleston Exposition) nor the real Declaration of Independence - only a fac simile - as the real thing is sealed and put away in a vault to preserve it. We walked

3/24/02
pressed with the beauty of Walker's pictures by this light - and the stained glass. From the Library we rode back (in the "green car") to the White House and went in there past the numerous doorkeepers there and in the ante-room stair hall adjoining - which you must pass thro' to get into the big old East Room with its beautiful old shining glass chandiliers and yellow hangings over the many big deep windows and its portraits of Lincoln and Washington and Martha Washington and the big fire places and all. It was flooded with sunshine and looked pleasant enough - we went to the Southern window and looked out into the private grounds, where we saw young "Teddy" Roosevelt- Exactly like his picture - who hasn't been back to school since he was brought home in February sick with pneumonia. The littlest boy (Archibald?) was there too, and several large - sized policemen. From "the historic mansion" we walked out to the State Dept. but did not see Washington's famous sword there (it had gone to Charleston Exposition) nor the real Declaration of Independence - only a fac simile - as the real thing is sealed and put away in a vault to preserve it. We walked

3/24/02
pressed with the beauty of Walker's pictures by this light - and the stained glass. From the Library we rode back (in the "green car") to the White House and went in there past the numerous doorkeepers there and in the ante-room stair hall adjoining - which you must pass thro' to get into the big old East Room with its beautiful old shining glass chandiliers and yellow hangings over the many big deep windows and its portraits of Lincoln and Washington and Martha Washington and the big fire places and all. It was flooded with sunshine and looked pleasant enough - we went to the Southern window and looked out into the private grounds, where we saw young "Teddy" Roosevelt- Exactly like his picture - who hasn't been back to school since he was brought home in February sick with pneumonia. The littlest boy (Archibald?) was there too, and several large - sized policemen. From "the historic mansion" we walked out to the State Dept. but did not see Washington's famous sword there (it had gone to Charleston Exposition) nor the real Declaration of Independence - only a fac simile - as the real thing is sealed and put away in a vault to preserve it. We walked
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