American Chestnut Trees

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“... it was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her husband, her father, nor her brother. This remarkable relaxation of American decorum has been probably introduced by the foreign legations.”
—Frances Trollope (1780–1863)

“Your soul ... is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)