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bought the place they did take down some partitions as you noticed in the long adobe in
the long living room where the paintings are you can still see where the wall was before,
and in the master bedroom there's two doors on the screened porch there and its one big
room, but it was two rooms with separate doors. The only other thing, well they did two
other things, the long living room there was two windows looking out on the walnut tree,
but they were narrow windows, so when they took off the division in that room, they
made a connecting widow, they made that big window looking out there. And the other
thing we did is from the library to the other living room that comes this way, and made
the stair way, they put in the door way and made the stair way going down to where it
connected, because that room, that room, the library and the one to the east, those were
the original buildings, and as the del Valle family grew they kept adding on.

MD: Growing with the family!

SRL: But that's what we did, and that library was just fantastic, we really used it a lot; a lot of
favorite things in there. I still have a lot of it in carton boxes.

MD: Were the books that you had, were they left by the del Valle family, or were they ones
your family had collected over the years?

SRL: No, it was our family, dad had a lot of books in his family. And I still have them at my
house, things that my grandmother read. Of course I never knew her.

MD: Oh did she pass?

SRL: She passed away during the first World War, so before my parents were married, but I
have a lot of her books, she was very interested in India, the Raja, there are all kinds of
books about the Raja. It was really fun to read those.

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