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P.S: The store found the blouse I lost!! I pick it up next Wednesday.

290 Walnut Street
Stoughton, Mass
May 31, 1947

Dear folks,

You will be able to write me for a few days more: I [[strikethrough]] get [[/strikethrough]] leave Stoughton the 4th, Wednesday afternoon. That will give me time to get all the lawns, etc., done & for Ina to take a 2-day trip & buy her wedding rings & few suits for Dex. He never bought himself anything. I'm sorry, but [[strikethrough]] we [[/strikethrough]] I still plan to stay a week with Ina. Her parents don't object at all; her father will be off on a business trip and her mother would have seen no more of her if I hadn't been there. Besides, Dex has been talking to a man from Seattle, & it is very possible that they go to Washington next year after all. Dr. Welch, head of Bio. here, was asked to come out & be head there--& tho' he refused, he put in some good words for Dex. We'll go to Radio City the 5th or 6th. Day before yesterday: we didn't go to Pops, for the men couldn't get even rush seats; on the spur we went to a play instead: "Anna Lucasta", acted by an all-negro cast: a really good play with marvelous acting. I never saw a more enthusiastic audience. Dick (the politician) took me. He is blind at night -- his rods (in eyeball) are gone -- & has to be guided about. He can't very much of a politician.. works hard (I guess) in Mass. legislature. Is 26, talks a lot (& likes quiet people) & seems rather inexperienced in the ways of the world for some reason or other. Ina & Dex are really very