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the office and worked three hours with Felix on the test records. Felix has spent the whole weekend on them and has them all plotted. He is a [[underlined]] worker [[/underlined]] - I'm much impressed with him. Have seen Bob Walsh once since Friday, getting out of the elevator as Collis and I got on yesterday afternoon. Bob said, "Fori, bad luck!" and I heartily agreed. What a mess the tennis business has made of it and I still have a $5.00 raincheck I probably can't use!

As I hadn't heard from home since I got here, I phoned them a few moments ago and found all going well and Willie and Mother seemed cheerful and fully resigned to my prolonged visit. So that did cheer me up immensely; was feeling pretty low about it all prior to that. I made these plans Friday in good faith and with good judgement, waited till Saturday morning, when it was lovely, to get the tickets, turned down Jim today as I thought the matches would be played, and still it all turned out so miserably. My first reaction is to be rather bitter until I realize how foolish it is to blame the weather. It is a little too much to expect the weather to be good just because I did thus and so, after all. My evenings at the Wivel and the Bowers' were certainly high spots; the rest was just "the lay of the green," I guess.

New Haven, Conn.
Monday, Sept. 19, 1938.
Had breakfast with Alf Bredenburg and we got to the office about 9; Felix was there; Bob arrived at 10. As 0364 was going to New Haven at 10:10 Std. on #70, we went back to the hotel, checked out and caught her for New Haven. On the way down the platform: Walsh - "Is there

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