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36 Cabot Hall, Radcliffe
Cambridge, Mass.
April 11, 1947

Dear folks,
  
Here I am listening to your "Afternoon of a Faun" in the cozy, dark music room downstairs in Agassiz with its huge radiator diffusing warmth from the wall above to me on the couch. That music has a summery sound: I can imagine myself up at Plummer's island, with the bees humming around the chimney and the birds singing-- a hot day.
  
Things seem to be ironing out in some directions: Jean's roommate, Marcia, wants a separate room next year; also, there is a very vague possibility that she may marry Jim, a boy she has been seeing steadily for a long time - met him at a society deb's coming-out party -- perhaps at hers. She's very stylish in dress, but very quiet and considerate a person -- very pretty. She's fascinated by metaphysics -- tho' not really believing in it, and very neatly read one of the cook's dish-pan hands, to surprise & please the latter. However, she's not very closely in our group. So it is possible that Jean & I may room together. Louise will come along too, in what arrangement I don't foretell.
  
I did, after all, agree to go to that dance. It was too late to pull out. I received a little note from Judy, too, asking how to begin sailing. I wonder if she knows. A mistake, I guess, but made.
  
Got a good Eng. grade: A- on my last quiz