The Berries Were Sour

While pretending to study for this astronomy exam, I'm reading newspaper archives:

"The Berries Were Sour."

The Washington Post says that a Washington physician owns a cranberry bog at Cape Cod. Two or three years ago he entertained an English cousin, and at dinner one night there was cranberry sauce. The Englishman was delighted with it. Indeed, he expressed his pleasure so much and so often that after he had returned to London the doctor sent him over a barrel of fine Cape Cod cranberries. A month or so passed and then came a letter from the Englishman. "My Dear So-and-So," it said, "it was awfully good of you to send me those berries, and I thank you. Unfortunately, they all soured on the way over."

- from the August 20, 1896 issue of the San Francisco Call (Volume 80, Number 81)