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36 Cabot Hall, Radcliffe 
Cambrige, Mass.
May 10, 1947


Dear folks, 

You are right--I really would have time to write if I tried. However, our list is not much to blame. We did the main work three weeks ago and the last typing was done by Dex, providing enough carbon copies for several weeks. I won't do it again, nor will Ina. It is really not much to make a fuss over. She has real reason to try, which I do not; I thought if I won an auto I would sell it to her. It is a gamble, and gambles are both interesting and usually unprofitable, but I cannot say that this one has cost much time and only a little indigestion from eating all the peanuts we bought for the bags at one time. 

Work at present: Am enjoying reading "The Way of All Flesh", tho it is tiring to go through a novel in two days. It made up part of one night's assignment of which the rest included about forty pages of poetry. Our last assignments are very, very full. Also have two history assignments to get out of the way this weekend so I can devote the rest of the week to reviewing half-baked English poetry for the final next Saturday. Have spent two days and evenings, missing Spring Formal and a square dance finishing my Bio lab notebook--a phylogenetic chart of all the phyla, subphyla, orders, classes, w th characteristics and a few genera listed for each. Inc and Louise were up all last night on the same, having a big lab quiz in Anatomy for which they spent almost all the night before. As for music, I figure on four days after History exam in which to concentrate on that, and will have five days for History, so guess everything will come out all right. 

I came down with a cold day before yesterday which also kept the dance away; Dick was extremely considerate to send me flwoers anyway and a pretty card, a Mother's day card; not being able to buy one myself, I will enclose it as a substitute. It is much better now, but I still have both ears and one nostril blockaded. Oh, yes, was very lucky to get an A on my last History test. I seem to be hovering between A's and B's in most of my subjects, and must work very hard to go up. However, Dick has another date: the 23rd, after the bad-est exam. I feel inconsiderate in refusing him so many times, especially since he is in a hole with Judy: he considers her his girl, yet she goes out with other boys, and any other refusals hurt his ego, I'm sure. 

Well, I must get back to "The Flesh" again. 

Love, 

Doris