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Nat.Mus.,Wash.D.C.
20 April 1948.

Dear Dr. Tisza:

Yesterday we received a letter from Doris that seemed unusually full of inner conflicts. It was the result of an invitation she had received from a negro student that she met in her week's work at Midyear at the coop to attend a play with him, date indefinite. The girl went over the whole racial question and the upshot was because she herself had known the suffering of an inferiority complex, she felt that she should alleviate the same of the negro race by accepting the invitation. Quite aside from any question of tolerance, which doesn't enter my worries, I felt that she is not in the sanely balanced condition of mind of emotion to throw herself so gallantly into this matter, and that in so doing she may find herself in a worse emotional quagmire. But I do not dare to write to her to this effect, although I think that her father is trying to compose a mild comment about it, but am putting the whole affair in your capable hands. 

I think that your advice about her living in the cooperative house next year excellent, not only from the financial standpoint but even more from the fact that she will have to work as well as live with other young women. She recently wrote to her friend Dolores that after a "week of laughter" at home her return to Radcliffe was a contrast and she wasn't at the time even speaking to her roommate, but I believe there has been a better understanding between them since. 

We are hoping that she will work at the scientific research station at Beltsville for at least part of the summer among people who may serve to her as objectively minded, balanced models of maturity, though there are plenty of other youngsters there. 

I needn't tell you how I appreciate your interest and care in her case. 

Sincerely,