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Arlington, Va.
18 Apr 1947.

Dear Doris:

You poor little girlie! I wrote the letter about the course in Ethics before I ever heard of your wish to go up to Petersham this summer. It had seemed to me that you were thrown off your customary bringing-up by meeting these somewhat foreign ways of doing things, and you were a bit confused. It is quite true that the Europeans, particularly the Germanic races have quite different standards of morality from the Americans, and that is how I explain Inc and possibly Koen, you never said what occurred but I fear he was quite capable of demanding the utmost of you. This is not the American standard by a long shot, and you have to look out for yourself and keep absolutely clean. It has worried me naturally.  While it seems nothing, probably, to Inc, it is a great deal to an American girl and to the society in which we live. We over here have not been thru the devastating effects of 2 world wars on our doorsteps, and are still a different minded people. I hope we continue to be. Anyhow I don't want you to be a crusader of that sort here. Changes are coming fast enough, but let us keep back in such matters at a conservative distance.    I don't doubt but what she is a fine woman, possessed of more maturity than you and full of enthusiasm and fine ideals. She probably has that imaginative quality of thinking up all sorts of things that stimulates you.   I have felt the same attraction in most of my friends. They stir one up and open new fields never thought of before.  I felt the same towards Elizabeth Hoyt when I went to college, and at intervals all thru life have met and been attracted to similar people.  It is not often anyone's good fortune to keep in close touch with