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Written at Hadley Field
New Brunswick
New Jersey,
Nov. 2, 1934

Dearest Mother:

Many thanks for your thoughtfull remembrance in the form of the card and check. Having my dads' and Bills' bad habit of smoking I will purchase a box of seegars with the cash--or perhaps get a cmall tree or two to replace the ugly hemlocks in front of our shack.

I haven't written any letters for ages as has become my bad custom, says you! Well, as you no doubt know, I have become noticeably older and more decrepit and for a fact I've had more miseries than usual these past several months. That back trouble that started last March has been a bad 'un and the last spasm, for six weeks now, turned into scitica so you could notice it--in  fact I couldn't walk and even today after much doctoring I feel pretty old manish and am darned tired of doctoring. Going to take some heat and massage now to try to get rid of it. Naturally my temper and bearing are worse than usual--says you again!

Pete is a regular schoolboy. We had an awful disappointment when a couple of cold--the first in a long long time--kept him out for over a week. But he has bounced right b back and is taking his lessons in grand stride. It is a great kick to hear him at night telling the stories he has learned and all the rigamarole that goes with it. Gosh--hope he is not going to start a taling jag at such a tender age.

Ruth is rather tired out maintaining the house by herself and if I can only count on the job going through for a least another while I'll try to talk her into a maid even if they are a nuisance. We've had help coming in and for the Fall cleaning this year we've had a good worker of the old fashioned type who knows what it is all about and cares about doing a good clean job. We agree that help in any form is a nuisance and we'd rather get along without.

Your letters have not said if Lill was feeling well after her illness. Hope all is OK with you all.

Helen seems to have pulled a feast one, Trust it will work out all right, but knowing the Williams family for little good up to now it is a poor choice--perhaps. Let us hope this is the exception and that it will be successful. Is Lill or Helen going to make a formal announcement of any kind soon?

Was rather dissapointed when you passed Ruths' two invitstions to come to Short Hills....Any luck renting the house? What became of that projected New Orleans trip of the travelers? Hope Henry is doing nicely.....

Well--for a fella going into 40--- I guess I have lived a lot of lives in the first half at that!

Best love to you and take good care of yourself.

Your son,