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Letters from Heron Island

Personal correspondence from island guests and residents, with transcriptions and editorial notes.

Doris Bingham
July 1908
Hotel Madockawando Letters — 1908
Doris Bingham, age 21, writes to her parents in Dubuque, Iowa from the Madockawando Lodge on Heron Island — recounting her journey from the midwest and her ecstatic return to the island after nine years away.
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