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Arlington, Va
23 Feb 1947.

Dear Doris:

Maybe it was just as well you didn't go out to Stoughton if the traffic conditions were anything like here. Everything up there, tho, runs so much more smoothly in snowstorms as they know how to cope with the weather.   I thought of you last evening and wondered how you were enjoying yourself. Keep him at a distance, and let your own instincts for repulse guide you. They ought to be strong at your age.   I was thinking that it would be a handy place for you to leave your type writer, etc. at the Weatherbys next May. They live so near that you could carry things like that there rather than try to bring them out to Stoughton. Keep in touch with them.

We are having a gas shortage here, due to a break in the pipe line somewhere in the mts. of West Va. and they threaten to cut off the gas altogether if folks don't go easy.   Helen's house is heated by it and such people, they say, should keep their thermostats no higher than 60°.

Our snow is still piled high. Dad hasn't moved his car yet, and would have a lot of shovelling to do to get it out. Our street has been boarded off as a coasting street and the children come from all around, and evenings the grown-ups coast till late.   Bobbie is out with all her young swains in the evening.   Mr. Bryan is out now with his wife and Colman, and that Mr. Kidwell with his small adopted child.   The cars that have gotten stuck and been abandoned line the side-streets and many main highways.   We saw them Friday when we went down.   Dad spent yesterday at the Lib. of Congress but had a long tedious time waiting both ways for buses.   Sophy waited 2 hrs. Thurs. night in the storm & then had to walk most of the way home. She says that