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Arlington, Va.
6 May 1947.

Dear Doris:

We are glad to know your papers are off at last. Now, I suppose, it will be steady grind for the finals. I hope you don't have so much outside reading as Dolores seems to have. I called her up Sunday night to hear how she is getting on. She had to read Vanity Fair by the middle of this week and was at it when I called, I guess. Her whole plan now (and hope that she lives on) is for a week's vacation at this Baptist place down in the N.C. mts. She longs to see a bit of the world at last, and wants that little change from the Admissions Office. It will be about the middle of June if she gets a chance to go.

Dad is beginning to worry over how in the world you will get all your belongings out to Stoughton. He harps on it every day, but I tell him to let you take care of it for once. There may be some one who has a car that you know who would take you & your duds out there for a spin some fine evening. Maybe Mabel's father? I don't know where he works. If it is around Boston, but not if he is over in Norwood as he used to work. Just be thinking of it. I think you had better take a day or so out there after school is over to get your clothes packed away from moths and straightened out. But you can think of that too.

It is chilly and damp and early springish here, with a lot of rainy spells. The leaves are widespread now here, and roses budded. The tulips are at their widest and lilacs dropping. My tomato plants still survive the cold weather but haven't grown much. I doubt if they have fruit by July 1st.