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Sutton Island, where the house is located, is about 270 miles from Boston, and near Mt. Desert Island. It can be reached once a day by mailboat from the mainland. There are no cars, or even horses on the island. Once on the square mile of land, there is nothing much to do but talk, pick berries, and fish off the docks for small sculpins, flounders, and jellyfish...
Last week the Cunard Liner Mauretania arrived from Southampton with a number of heavy wooden cases consigned to Mitchell Kennerley of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan-the first shipment of the Leverhulme Art Collection. "More will arrive by every mailboat till the end of the year," said Mr. Kennerley, looking thoughtfully at the cases. "No, I don't know what's in them...
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