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90 Mercer Avenue
Hartsdale, N.Y.
June 9, 1947

Dear folks,

Am just setting out to Radio City this morning. It is raining as usual, about 9:00.

We have been hiking twice, and have a bucket of flowers & ferns, Do you remember the name of that fern [[strikethrough]] wit [[/strikethrough]] like a lady fern but tapering at bottom?  Found beech fern.  One strange plant: thick vine, tendrils & leaves like pea, heads (flowers on short pedicels) of green, foul-smelling flowers too small to dissect without microscope.  Found 2 kinds of asters, caledonia, & others I don't know names of.  We began to draw them yesterday.  Does yellow dodder (water lily) have [[strikethrough]] a large number of [[/strikethrough]] compound ovaries?  We see 12 tiny compartments with more than one ovule in each.

Have been to 2 movies: excellent French, "It Happened at an Inn" and excellent English "Stairway to Heaven".  Today we'll see "Great Expectations" -- based on Charles Dickens' novel.

[[strikethrough]] Rece [[/strikethrough]] I'm not preventing Ina from seeing her mother, nor am great inconvenience.  They merely speak in Dutch then; nobody is put out, I'm very sure.  There is taking place quite a drama, & I sit tight & absorb.

Ina's coming down Monday next, or Thursday.

Hudson is pink under G.W. bridge.  We are being driven in by Barton, boy friend of Ina's cousin Noah who is spending 10 months in U.S.

Love, Doris