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Arlington, Va.
14 May 1947.

Dear Doris:

We are rejoicing to hear a little from you now and then. I suppose all this week you are just cramming. That is the worst of majoring in English - you have to read such quantities. Don't you get an exam in Biology or is it just notebook? I can't figure out when it comes, if at all, from your account.

It is interesting to hear of your old school mate. Maybe you will see more of him next year if he is to be there. I suppose he is a G.I? being in navy uniform. Have as many as you can without specializing too much.

Dad and I have just been spraying the peach trees again, - I found a curculio on a baby peach, which set us off. Dad could scarcely bring himself to step on the beetle!

The mockingbirds have a young one peeping outside. I have seen only one. It seems very early for one to be out at all. The cat birds have only just arrived.

Helen called up a little while ago to ask us to go to Gettysburg with them this Saturday. It is just over the line into Pennsylvania. I hope the day is nice. Dad is taking a few Sats. off at last.

I wonder if you will be going out to Stoughton this weekend? I hope your cold isn't bothering you any longer. It is chilly up there till late, but we have been having a few warm days until tonight when the wind went into the Northeast again. People aren't yet wearing thin clothes. I don't know whether they are with you either, but shouldn't think so.

Dad is trying to get off his uncompleted mss to Abrams. He started to do the composites for Abrams big