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#36 Cabot Hall
Radcliffe College
October 8, 1946

Dear Folks, 

You made me feel very guilty. I know it takes only a moment to write a postcard, at least. Your letter was a wonderful composite, and oh! I wish I had been there. You got to go in swimming after all. It was nice of Rosalina to write too; what does she look like? She is the girl whom Julia meant to bring to supper that night, isn't she? The pictures will be very much appreciated. I shall write to Sophy and Dolores at the same time.

My second theme is done at last, on the night before. It was a little sketch about an afternoon Dolores and I once had at her house. It is not that I haven't been thinking about home at all that I haven't written; I have been extremely confused and tired lately, but that is no excuse. Herafter I shall write every other day, even if it is only a postcard. All right?

I am really glad that you won't have to go out to teach every week, Dad. Still, you had some fun ; and you won't have such good excuses to go out driving--no plants to collect.

Don't worry about the apples spoiling. They go too rapidly. I eat about four or five a day. They give us some fruit, but not as much as usual. I hope the meat sitiation is better than at Stoughton. Mrs. Barry hasn't been able to get any for almost a week. We had chicken, carrots and peas, parsley, and chocolate icecream tonight. Oh, I have to eat out at Agissez Hall(in the 4Rd Radcliffe square) on Tuesdays and Thursdays now: I have swimming just before lunch, and not time to dry my hair and run back to the dormitories before the lunch is over. It doesn't cost anything, and you are entitled to 48¢ worth of food. I usually go 5¢ over for an icecream. The main dish, a vegetable plate, costs 35¢; milk is 8¢; I get a ten cent dish of icecream. Do you think I am extravagent?

I get up every morning at 6. Take a bath, wash out my clothes, and practice French until breakfast. I find I can get it all done that way. We are reading 10 pages of the play and ten of conversation to memorize every assignment. I am surprised at our professor. He looks so young,but he seems to know how to explain everything so charmingly. He claims the rapt attention of everybody but a plain girl in the front row who is very much aware of her plainess. 

They don't heat the rooms, or the baths eitheryet. The water usually isn't very hot at six either. Everybody has bad colds here, so I consider mysslf very lucky to have gotten off so well.

It would be wonderful if Sophy came up to study. In what other line do you think she could go?

Congratualions on your new hat! What does it look like? 

There is a girl on the fourth floor who comes from Washington too. She went to Roosevelt High School, and I can't think of her name at present. Her folks sent her pages from Washington papers and I have just been up looking at them. There is a little about Western in a gossip column in the Times Herald. There was an article on roomates in the Post.

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