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National Museum, Wash. DC.
10 May 1947.

Dear Doris: 

I am waiting for Dad's Council meeting prior to Biolog. meeting to end. It is the last of the season for which he is always thankful.

We haven't heard from you and wonder if your exams are beginning next week or in another week. Surely they will start by the 20th.  I hope you have some time to prepare for them and cannot urge you too much to drop all this contest business and concentrate on getting decent marks in your exams.  And don't get yourself all run down by staying up nights. You won't do yourself justice in your mental work. Anyone of your high strung calibre has to be careful. You are not of the phlegmatic Dutch type and can't endure long strains, even though you are physically strong. You have more at stake than the Dutch girl, for you are going on in your college career there at Radcliffe, and we want you to maintain your usual good standing.

It has been frightfully chilly here, - 3 nights of freezing temp.s and the fruit crop has all gone. We were out near Ball's Hill this afternoon and saw the forest trees, - young sycamores and tulips, looking as if a fire had scorched them, and even the poison ivy was black from frost. I fear the strawberries which are blooming now will be lost too. But the blackberries haven't flowered.   Young Arthur Cushman is clearing a piece of land - he bought 4½ acres out there - to build a house.   You know he married Helene Gibbons, that tall dark girl who used to be at the Museum, - you remember meeting her there with Sophy?   Barber was out there helping him and showed us over the land.

Louella Walkley was up at the M.C.Z. last weekend