The Cats of Alice Stone Blackwell
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The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Alice Stone Blackwell wrote about her cats.
- A2
The Blackwell Family Papers tell about Alice Stone Blackwell and her cats.
- B1
The Blackwell Family Papers are a collection of letters and diaries.
- B2
The Blackwell Family Papers are a collection of letters and diaries held in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.
- C1
Held in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress and available online to researchers, the Blackwell Family Papers record how Alice Stone Blackwell wrote about cats in two roles: as pets and as guardians of family documents.
- C2
Preserved within the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, as well as online for researchers, the Blackwell Family Papers chronicle how Alice Stone Blackwell wrote about cats in two quite distinct capacities: as household pets and as guardians of…
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- guard
- to protect someone or something from danger or harm
- compose
- to write a piece of music, a poem, or a formal letter
- issue
- a single copy or edition of a newspaper or magazine published at a particular time
- household
- a group of people, often a family, who live together in one house
- ruin
- to damage something so badly that it loses all its value or pleasure
- valuable
- worth a lot of money, or very important and useful
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Library of Congress: Unfolding History (manuscripts). Read the original for the full report.