Hidden letters reveal love, lust, scandal in 1920s Baltimore society
There are secrets within the old houses of Baltimore.
巴尔的摩的老房子里藏着秘密。
The secrets are stashed away in attics and hidden under floorboards and buried in privies.
这些秘密被藏在阁楼、地板下和厕所里。
When Joanna Meade’s family moved into a 1910 house in Roland Park, she tried to picture all the residents who had come before her.
当乔安娜·米德 (Joanna Meade) 一家人搬进罗兰公园 (Roland Park) 的一栋 1910 年的房子时，她试图想象所有在她之前来到这里的居民的样子。
How many hands had turned the old brass doorknobs?
有多少只手转动过旧的黄铜门把手？
What mysteries might they have left behind?
他们可能留下了什么谜团？
Then, one day, a bathroom renovation opened a window into a long-forgotten world.
然后，有一天，浴室翻新打开了一扇窗，通向一个早已被遗忘的世界。
Her contractor removed a wall and found something hidden amid the plumbing.
她的承包商拆除了一堵墙，并在管道中发现了隐藏的东西。
He wiped off the dust — a little black box made of tin and painted with gold stripes.
他擦去灰尘——一个锡制的小黑盒子，上面涂着金色条纹。
The lock was broken.
锁坏了。
Later, Meade eased back the lid.
后来，米德松开了盖子。
Stacked inside and bound with twine were old letters.
里面堆放着旧信件，并用麻线捆扎起来。
The browned paper was as delicate as onionskin.
棕色的纸像洋葱皮一样精致。
Every letter was addressed to a woman, “Mrs. R.A.
每封信都是写给一位女士的，“R.A. 夫人”。
Spaeth.”
斯佩思。”
Gently, carefully, she unfolded some letters and began to read.
她轻轻地、小心地展开几封信，开始读。
One was dated June 3, 1921.
其中一封的日期为 1921 年 6 月 3 日。
Dearest, I have been writing you many stupid letters recently, when I might have been telling you I loved you.
最亲爱的，我最近给你写了很多愚蠢的信，而我本可以告诉你我爱你。
I see you doing your hair, looking sideways from dark eyes at me out of the mirror …
我看到你在梳理头发，用黑色的眼睛斜视着镜子里的我……
My inspiration is of lying upon my back, with closed eyes, and my whole consciousness drawn to one focus — the sensation of your warm mouth fast upon mine.
我的灵感来自于仰面躺着，闭上眼睛，我的整个意识都集中在一个焦点上——你温暖的嘴唇紧紧贴在我的嘴唇上的感觉。
The loopy cursive was difficult to read.
潦草的草书很难读。
The antiquated language was hard to follow.
过时的语言很难理解。
Meade counted one, two, three ...
米德数着一、二、三……
67 letters.
67 个字母。
All but one postmarked 1920 or 1921.
除一张外，所有邮戳均盖有 1920 年或 1921 年。
Her imagination was humming.
她的想象力在嗡嗡作响。
The letters contained the desire and intrigue of a paperback romance.
这些信包含了平装书浪漫的欲望和阴谋。
I have been unable to rid my mind of you in the black thing.
我一直无法摆脱那个黑色东西里的你。
Have you been wearing it, by any chance, to hypnotize my thoughts?
你戴着它是不是为了催眠我的思绪？
For page after page, the writer contemplated her kisses and her curves.
作者一页又一页地思考着她的吻和她的曲线。
He contemplated German philosophers, too.
他也思考了德国哲学家。
The letters presented more questions than answers.
这些信提出的问题多于答案。
Who was Mrs. R.A.
R.A. 夫人是谁？
Spaeth?
斯佩斯？
Who was the writer?
作者是谁？
He simply signed, “R.” His envelopes showed no return address.
他只是签了个“R”。他的信封上没有显示回信地址。
The old house had whispered a secret.
老房子悄悄地诉说着一个秘密。
Meade wanted to know everything.
米德想知道一切。
Her search for answers would plunge her into 1920s Baltimore society: a celebrated Johns Hopkins scientist, a famous mountaineer and a trailblazing female journalist.
为了寻找答案，她陷入了 20 年代巴尔的摩社会：一位著名的约翰·霍普金斯大学科学家、一位著名的登山家和一位开拓性的女记者。
The letters would capture imaginations across the city and, with help from curious neighbors and The Baltimore Banner, unfurl a tale of lust and scandal and fortune.
这些信件将激发整个城市的想象力，并在好奇的邻居和《巴尔的摩旗帜报》的帮助下，展开一个关于欲望、丑闻和财富的故事。
My darling, my darling, I bury my face in you, and strain to me all of you that I can clasp.
我亲爱的，我亲爱的，我把脸埋进你的怀里，把你的一切都紧紧地抱在我怀里。
Squinting at the old handwriting, Meade could make out a first name for Mrs. Spaeth: “My dearest Edith.” And scattered lines suggested Edith was swept up in a tumultuous romance.
米德眯着眼睛看着那张旧字迹，认出了斯佩思夫人的名字：“我最亲爱的伊迪丝。”零散的线条表明伊迪丝正陷入一场混乱的浪漫之中。
Meade went through four or five of the letters, and she was hooked.
米德看了四五封信，她就被迷住了。
A quick internet search told her that an R.A.
快速的互联网搜索告诉她，一位 R.A.
Spaeth had published zoological papers in the 1910s and 1920s on topics such as color changes of fish.
Spaeth 在 1910 年代和 1920 年代发表了有关鱼类颜色变化等主题的动物学论文。
A collection of gibbon ape specimens in Switzerland bore his name.
瑞士收藏的长臂猿标本以他的名字命名。
Meade posted on the website Nextdoor.
米德在 Nextdoor 网站上发布了这一消息。
A woman in Waverly sent a newspaper article on Dr. Reynold Albrecht Spaeth.
韦弗利的一位女士在报纸上发了一篇关于雷诺·阿尔布雷希特·斯佩思博士的文章。
The zoologist and Johns Hopkins public health professor was ahead of his time, giving lectures on the merits of birth control and education for women factory workers.
这位动物学家和约翰·霍普金斯大学的公共卫生教授走在了时代的前面，就节育和工厂女工教育的优点发表了演讲。
By 1920, he was 34 and already renowned in the field of immunology.
1920年，他34岁，已经在免疫学领域享有盛誉。
Curiously, the letters were addressed to another house, on Longwood Road.
奇怪的是，这些信是写给朗伍德路的另一所房子的。
That’s around the corner from Meade’s home.
那是在米德家的拐角处。
Her neighbor discovered in city directories that Reynold and Edith Spaeth had lived on Longwood Road in 1920.
她的邻居在城市名录中发现 Reynold 和 Edith Spaeth 于 1920 年曾住在朗伍德路。
Another neighbor found documents online about Edith: A daughter of the mayor of Yonkers , she came from the prominent Taussig family.
另一位邻居在网上找到了有关伊迪丝的文件：她是扬克斯市市长的女儿，来自显赫的陶西格家族。
The society pages reported her attendance at dances and on steamers abroad.
社交媒体页面报道了她参加国外舞会和乘坐轮船的情况。
In the summer of 1913, she married Reynold, who was finishing his graduate studies at Harvard.
1913 年夏天，她与当时正在哈佛大学完成研究生学业的雷诺德结婚。
Edith was educated at the best women’s colleges, Wellesley and Radcliffe, and wrote newspaper articles on everything from guinea pigs to vitamins.
伊迪丝在最好的女子学院韦尔斯利学院和拉德克利夫学院接受教育，并在报纸上撰写文章，内容涉及从豚鼠到维生素的各种内容。
She’s remembered as one of America’s first syndicated woman science writers.
她被认为是美国第一位联合女性科学作家之一。
More neighbors sent Census records, newspaper articles and obituaries.
更多邻居发送了人口普查记录、报纸文章和讣告。
Meade’s post online drew more than 200 comments.
米德的帖子在网上引起了 200 多条评论。
That’s when The Banner went to see the letters.
就在那时，《横幅》杂志去看了这些信件。
Meade has a young daughter and a job as a fitness trainer, and while riveted by her find, had little desire to parse more than 100 pages of faded, old cursive.
米德有一个年幼的女儿，还有一份健身教练的工作，虽然她对自己的发现很着迷，但并不想解析 100 多页褪色的旧草书。
She handed over the tin box and the discoveries by her neighbors.
她把锡盒和邻居发现的东西交给了她。
Maybe there was something more to find.
也许还有更多东西需要寻找。
In the newsroom, we spread the letters across the table in a small office.
在新闻编辑室里，我们把信件铺在小办公室的桌子上。
Reporters came and went.
记者来了又走。
Everyone wanted to help decipher juicy turn-of-the-century love letters.
每个人都想帮助破译世纪之交的多汁情书。
Patterns began to appear in the handwriting.
笔迹中开始出现图案。
He put the tails of his “g’s” on the wrong side, like “p’s.” He used “+” for “and.”
他把“g”的尾部放在了错误的一侧，就像“p”一样。他用“+”来表示“和”。
What a sweet romance: an esteemed Hopkins scientist, whose research took him away from home, writing love letters back to his wife in Baltimore.
多么甜蜜的浪漫啊：一位受人尊敬的霍普金斯大学科学家，为了研究而离开家，给巴尔的摩的妻子写情书。
Or so it seemed.
或者看起来是这样。
“R” emerged as a man consumed by his studies and passions.
“R”是一个专注于学习和激情的人。
His emotions poured out in a heady rush of steamy fantasies, jealous accusations, cold indifference.
他的情绪在令人陶醉的幻想、嫉妒的指责和冷漠中倾泻而出。
He quoted Kant and worried about money.
他引用康德的话并担心金钱。
One letter rambled on for 16 pages.
一封信的篇幅长达 16 页。
He fixated on someone named “Reu” — who was that?
他盯着一个名叫“Reu”的人——那是谁？
“R” wrote that legal trouble in Philadelphia threatened to ruin him.
“R”写道，费城的法律麻烦可能会毁了他。
By 1920, the Spaeths would have been married for seven years and raising a young son.
到 1920 年，斯佩斯夫妇已经结婚七年，并抚养了一个年幼的儿子。
Oddly, there was little mention of routine domestic affairs in the letters to Edith.
奇怪的是，给伊迪丝的信中几乎没有提及日常的国内事务。
One letter stood out like a decoder ring.
其中一封信像解码环一样引人注目。
It was typed and dated Aug.
它是打字的，日期是八月。
6, 1913, two weeks before the Spaeths’ wedding.
1913 年 12 月 6 日，斯佩斯夫妇婚礼前两周。
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What accessory duties are involved in my functioning at your little game of the 18th.
我在 18 日的小游戏中的表现涉及哪些辅助职责。
Do we have to practice maneuvers, and if so, when?
我们是否必须练习演习？如果需要，什么时候进行？
Before Monday morning?
周一早上之前？
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Please make it as late as possible, as I’m getting a lot of valuable work done here just now, and when I once leave it will be nothing but Ossining, probably, for the rest of the summer.
请尽可能晚一点，因为我现在在这里完成了很多有价值的工作，当我离开时，可能在整个夏天剩下的时间里，除了奥西宁什么也没有。
Why would Reynold spend the summer after his wedding in Ossining, New York?
雷诺德为什么要在纽约奥西宁结婚后度过夏天？
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Also please tell me what other fellows in dear old Nineteen-Nine are going to usher, or for that matter are pretty likely to show up, so that I can arrange to get hold of them after the performance.
另外请告诉我亲爱的老十九十九里的其他人将会迎来什么，或者说很可能会出现，这样我就可以安排在演出结束后联系他们。
“Your little game” and “the performance.” The words seemed dismissive for a young man writing to his fiancée about their wedding plans.
“你的小游戏”和“表演”。对于一个年轻人写信给未婚妻谈论他们的婚礼计划来说，这句话似乎是轻蔑的。
Then came a line from a June 5, 1921, letter:
然后是 1921 年 6 月 5 日的一封信中的一句话：
Was this tongue-in-cheek 1920s humor?
这是 20 年代的半开玩笑式幽默吗？
We turned back to the 1913 letter.
我们回到 1913 年的那封信。
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what other fellows in dear old Nineteen-Nine are going to usher?
亲爱的老十九十九里的其他人将会迎来什么？
Could this be written not by the bridegroom, but by one of his ushers?
难道这不是新郎写的，而是他的一位引座员写的吗？
The Yonkers Herald Statesman reported the wedding of Reynold Spaeth and Edith Taussig.
《扬克斯先驱政治家报》报道了雷诺·斯佩斯 (Reynold Spaeth) 和伊迪丝·陶西格 (Edith Taussig) 的婚礼。
The couple planned to honeymoon in Kiel, Germany, not Ossining, New York.
这对夫妇计划在德国基尔度蜜月，而不是纽约奥西宁。
The newspaper named their six ushers.
报纸公布了他们的六名引座员的名字。
One of them was Robert L.
其中之一是罗伯特·L.
Underhill, of Ossining.
奥西宁的昂德希尔。
I can often kiss you more deliciously elsewhere — in some beautiful curve, or darling spot of my own — but never with that quietly voluminous feeling that in the kiss itself one finds the world.
我经常可以在其他地方更美妙地吻你——在某个美丽的曲线上，或者在我自己的亲爱的地方——但从来没有那种安静而丰富的感觉，在吻本身中人们发现了世界。
Now, the letters revealed an altogether different romance, a hidden one.
现在，这些信件揭示了一种完全不同的浪漫，一种隐藏的浪漫。
Our next discovery confirmed the identity of Edith’s admirer “R.”
我们的下一个发现证实了伊迪丝的崇拜者“R”的身份。
His 1913 letter alone lists a return address in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of 32 Conant Hall, a Harvard dorm.
他 1913 年的信中仅列出了马萨诸塞州剑桥市哈佛大学宿舍科南特大厅 32 号的寄信人地址。
The university archives contain a student catalog for 1912-1913.
大学档案包含 1912 年至 1913 年的学生目录。
Robert Underhill is listed at 32 Conant Hall as a graduate student in philosophy.
罗伯特·安德希尔 (Robert Underhill) 是一名哲学研究生，位于科南特大厅 32 号。
He taught math and philosophy at Harvard for a few years, too.
他还在哈佛大学教授了几年数学和哲学。
Remember how “R” quotes Kant in his affections for Edith?
还记得“R”如何引用康德来表达对伊迪丝的感情吗？
We recognized new patterns in his handwriting.
我们在他的笔迹中发现了新的模式。
He attached his I’s to the verb that followed.
他将“我”附加到后面的动词上。
“I wish” became “iwish.” More of his letters came into focus.
“我希望”变成了“我希望”。他的更多信件成为焦点。
He was desperate and aching to meet Edith at a New York hotel just before Christmas of 1920.
1920 年圣诞节前夕，他迫切渴望在纽约的一家酒店见到伊迪丝。
He urged Edith to set boundaries for “Reu,” writing that the man was squandering opportunities and must settle down to work.
他敦促伊迪丝为“Reu”设定界限，写道这个人正在浪费机会，必须安定下来工作。
But that sloppy cursive wasn’t Reu at all; it was “Ren,” for Reynold.
但那潦草的草书根本不是Reu；而是Reu。这是雷诺的“Ren”。
Robert was writing to Edith about her husband.
罗伯特正在写信给伊迪丝谈论她的丈夫。
I dreamt three times, one night, of being unable to get at you, be alone with you.
一个晚上，我三次梦见无法接近你，无法单独和你在一起。
Sometimes you were disguised, sometimes in open character.
有时你是伪装的，有时则是公开的。
Various things got in the way, other people, Ren!
各种各样的事情妨碍了其他人、雷恩！
She must have asked him the pivotal question because he wrote back:
她肯定问了他这个关键问题，因为他回信说：
Don’t ask me whether you should have married Ren.
别问我你是否应该嫁给任。
I can’t answer without bringing in myself.
如果不带上我自己，我无法回答。
Each new discovery pulled us in deeper.
每一个新发现都让我们更加深入。
We could picture Edith, in her early 30s, a working mom of any era, seeing youth’s bright possibilities dimming and questioning her choices.
我们可以想象伊迪丝，三十岁出头，是任何时代的职场妈妈，看到年轻人光明的可能性变得黯淡，并质疑她的选择。
Maybe she steals a moment to herself with a letter.
也许她会通过一封信来独处一段时间。
To read Robert’s letters was to hear his voice.
阅读罗伯特的信就是聆听他的声音。
They were ghosts, but alive.
他们是鬼魂，但还活着。
We had missed a startling detail, though.
然而，我们错过了一个令人震惊的细节。
The scientist Reynold Spaeth and philosopher Robert Underhill had both attended Haverford College, in the same 34-man class of 1909, no less.
科学家雷诺·斯佩斯 (Reynold Spaeth) 和哲学家罗伯特·安德希尔 (Robert Underhill) 都曾就读于哈弗福德学院 (Haverford College)，并且是 1909 年同一个 34 人班级。
Remember the wedding letter?
还记得结婚信吗？
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what other fellows in dear old Nineteen-Nine.
亲爱的老十九岁还有什么其他人呢？
Their Haverford yearbook portrays Robert as a moody introvert who chased girls, brooded over philosophy and read the era’s trashy romance.
他们的哈弗福德年鉴将罗伯特描绘成一个喜怒无常的内向者，他追逐女孩，沉思哲学并阅读那个时代的垃圾浪漫故事。
Reynold was the campus overachiever, busying himself in everything from football to the National Audubon Society.
雷诺德是校园里的佼佼者，他忙于从足球到国家奥杜邦协会的各种活动。
Reynold and Robert both went on to Harvard, too.
雷诺德和罗伯特也都去了哈佛。
The university’s 1912-1913 catalog lists them in 32 Conant Hall; they were college roommates.
该大学 1912-1913 年的目录将它们列在 32 Conant Hall；他们是大学室友。
The setting was Baltimore of the 1920s, in leafy, affluent Roland Park.
故事背景是 20 年代的巴尔的摩，绿树成荫、富饶的罗兰公园。
Congress had just passed the 19th Amendment to grant women the right to vote.
国会刚刚通过了第十九修正案，赋予妇女投票权。
More women than ever before were joining the workforce.
加入劳动力队伍的女性比以往任何时候都多。
Edith looked to step out from her husband’s shadow and establish herself in a man’s field, science journalism.
伊迪丝希望摆脱丈夫的阴影，在男性的科学新闻领域站稳脚跟。
In the book “Writing for Their Lives: America’s Pioneering Female Science Journalists,” author Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette quotes letters from Edith to her editor.
在《为生活而写作：美国先锋女性科学记者》一书中，作者马塞尔·乔特科夫斯基·拉福莱特引用了伊迪丝写给编辑的信。
“I don’t want to write the half-baked, half-true, pseudoscience that has always appeared in newspapers,” she wrote.
“我不想写那些总是出现在报纸上的不成熟、半真实的伪科学，”她写道。
Edith had married one of the country’s leading zoologists in Reynold, but a figure from the past tugged at her heart — at least, that’s how a back cover of a paperback romance would read.
伊迪丝嫁给了美国一位顶尖的动物学家雷诺德，但过去的一个人物牵动着她的心——至少平装本浪漫小说的封底是这样读的。
Would Edith remain the professor’s wife or run off with the brooding philosopher?
伊迪丝会继续做教授的妻子，还是会和这位沉思的哲学家私奔？
Christmas of 1920 came and went.
1920 年的圣诞节来了又去了。
Robert did not meet Edith in New York.
罗伯特没有在纽约见到伊迪丝。
He wrote her again and complimented her articles.
他又给她写了一封信，称赞她的文章。
All comes of being a scientist’s wife; what should you become as a philosopher’s?
这一切都源于成为一名科学家的妻子；作为一名哲学家，你应该成为什么样的人？
Legal trouble had emerged in Philadelphia to complicate their romance.
费城出现的法律麻烦使他们的恋情变得复杂化。
His letters mentioned detectives, lawyers, money, and someone named “Wips,” of alien-enemy status.
他的信中提到了侦探、律师、金钱和一个名叫“威普斯”的外星敌人。
The term applied to Germans living in the U.S. during World War I .
该术语适用于第一次世界大战期间居住在美国的德国人。
He assured Edith that she would not be dragged into the scandal.
他向伊迪丝保证她不会被卷入丑闻。
The court case would present new characters and reveal the tragic secret of a wealthy heiress — a story for another time.
法庭案件将呈现新的人物，并揭示一位富有的女继承人的悲惨秘密——这是另一个故事。
By the spring of 1921, it was clear their romance had evolved into a close friendship.
到 1921 年春天，他们的浪漫显然已经发展成为亲密的友谊。
Robert’s letters no longer smoldered with urgency and desire.
罗伯特的信中不再充满紧迫感和渴望。
And there was another woman on the scene.
现场还有另一名女子。
Her name with a “B” was illegible.
她的名字带有“B”，难以辨认。
We want strength from each other, but to use in divergent causes instead of a common cause.
我们需要彼此的力量，但要用于不同的事业，而不是共同的事业。
You have your relationship with Ren, which as such is nothing in my life; I, my flirtation with B—, which as such is nothing in yours.
你和任有你的关系，这在我的生活中算不了什么；我，我与B的调情——这在你的调情中算不了什么。
Before last September the world was all affection; now it is all interests.
去年九月之前，世界充满了爱；现在都是利益。
The change is radical and one doesn’t adapt.
这种变化是彻底的，人们无法适应。
His letters to Edith had spanned almost one year.
他给伊迪丝的信跨越了近一年的时间。
The box’s final letter was dated June 8, 1921.
盒子里最后一封信的日期是 1921 年 6 月 8 日。
Robert wrote that he might visit Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where Edith and her family spent their summers.
罗伯特写道，他可能会去马萨诸塞州的伍兹霍尔，伊迪丝和她的家人在那里度过了夏天。
He wrote that he could stay in his tent.
他写道，他可以留在帐篷里。
Was he asking her for an invitation?
他是在向她索要邀请吗？
His letters end abruptly.
他的信突然结束了。
This was no paperback romance.
这不是平装本的爱情故事。
Real life does not tie up all the loose ends.
现实生活并不会解决所有未解决的问题。
The research by Meade, her neighbors and The Banner sketches out an epilogue.
米德、她的邻居和《旗帜报》的研究勾勒出了一个尾声。
A decade after that last letter, Robert married Miriam O’Brien .
最后一封信十年后，罗伯特与米里亚姆·奥布莱恩结婚。
They had two sons.
他们有两个儿子。
He would be remembered as a pioneer of American mountaineering .
他将作为美国登山运动的先驱而被人们铭记。
In 1931, his team climbed the east face of California’s Mt. Whitney , the highest peak in the contiguous U.S. — a feat that had been considered impossible.
1931 年，他的团队攀登了美国本土最高峰——加利福尼亚州惠特尼山的东壁——这一壮举曾被认为是不可能的。
The nonprofit American Alpine Club, in Golden, Colorado, presented an annual award in Robert’s name.
位于科罗拉多州戈尔登的非营利性美国高山俱乐部以罗伯特的名义颁发了年度奖项。
Two years ago, the club renamed the prize because of antisemitic slurs in his later letters .
两年前，由于他后来的信中含有反犹太主义诽谤，俱乐部将奖项重新命名。
Edith, meanwhile, moved to then-Siam with Reynold and their children
与此同时，伊迪丝与雷诺德和他们的孩子搬到了当时的暹罗
In a photo attached to her 1924 passport application before she left, she has bobbed hair, round horn-rimmed glasses and a loose necktie, the boyish fashion of the Roaring Twenties.
在她离开前的 1924 年护照申请中附有一张照片，她留着短发，戴着圆角框眼镜，系着宽松的领带，这是咆哮的二十年代的孩子气时尚。
She sits next to their two children and eyes the camera skeptically — or maybe that’s mild amusement.
她坐在两个孩子旁边，怀疑地看着镜头——或者这可能是一种轻微的娱乐。
Reynold had accepted a job at a medical school in Bangkok and was studying the native gibbons.
雷诺德接受了曼谷一所医学院的工作，正在研究本土长臂猿。
Within a year, he became ill and died of blood poisoning.
不到一年，他就得病，死于血液中毒。
”Famous scientist is victim of Septicemia — was studying monkeys of Siam,” the newspapers reported.
报纸报道说：“著名科学家是败血症的受害者，当时他正在研究暹罗的猴子。”
Widowed, Edith returned to Baltimore, for a time living in what is now Meade’s home.
丧偶后，伊迪丝回到巴尔的摩，暂时住在现在米德的家中。
She raised her son and daughter, gave up journalism and worked as a medical librarian in Washington, D.C. She later moved to California and died in September 1968, at age 80.
她抚养着自己的儿子和女儿，放弃了新闻工作，在华盛顿特区担任医学图书管理员。后来她搬到了加利福尼亚州，并于 1968 年 9 月去世，享年 80 岁。
Robert’s letters present a year of his inner life, but what had this period meant to Edith?
罗伯特的信展现了他一年的内心生活，但这段时间对伊迪丝意味着什么？
His words did not reveal an answer, but together the letters provide one clue.
他的话没有透露答案，但这些信件合在一起提供了一条线索。
All those years she saved the bundle and stashed it away, one more secret within the old houses of Baltimore.
这些年来，她一直保存着这个包裹并将其藏起来，这是巴尔的摩老房子里的又一个秘密。
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