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October 20, 1947

Dear folks,

This afternoon I have my picture taken, for free: at -two-thirty we run out to the portable x-ray car in front of Saville; here it comes now! And we shall see what college has done to me.

Have been working hard all weekend, save Friday night, when folk-danced, a very vigorous three hours. Dick (Saunders this time) invited me to "Oaklahoma" Monday night, and I will go; May advises me to go strongly, she having enjoyed the song -and dance very much; you went, didn't you, Mother? Well, I read Richard 2 and finished Aristotle--a huge job, covering 100 pages and taking careful notes with my own comments, and did the English assignment, reading the "[[strikethrough]] Play of the [[/strikethrough]] Second [[strikethrough]] OPl [[/strikethrough]] Play of the Sheperds," a middle English drama in which a long farce, quite humorous, is followed by a brief birth of Christ.

I hope your check reaches me soon, as am destitute.

May is a wonderful girl. She's a cloud-stepper, very light, and yet not atall [[sic]], if you know what I mean. Her mother owns a beauty shop; May introduced me to the sweetest cream ever-- strawberry--you rub it on lightly and smell eatable; don't fear that I shall buy any. She loves ballads, as indeed almost every one around here seems to; at least three girls have good record collections; Dick gave me a booklet of them; and in -English l Munn sang and played several. More than fad. Nobility going in for pastoral is all I can think of at the moment.

Jean back from Yale weekend. Game thrilling in which Yale beaten by Wisconsin. This Crow I met last week-end when he came up to take her to hear E Stanly Jones the great unifier of Protestantism; he seemed a really vital guy, a well developed character; tho'he is but five feet seven.

Well, Jolly-up this Friday, which Jean nor I particularly want to attend but to which we have had to invite several people- I David and Alec, the Greek. So we will study until about ten-thirty and then drop in for a few minutes on it; or perhaps not go at all, no, that would be false. Haven't heard from Dick; he takes his work seriously, I convince myself. Well, off to work, by the way, they have forbidden singing at the dishes, whereupon we waitors raised a h ue and the order was changed to apply only to heavy opera--the maids being Irish and adverse to such stuff.

Love, 

Doris

Transcription Notes:
There are lots of typos in the transcript as well as poor English.