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Arlington, VA
18 April 1948

Dear Doris:

It is a bright cool Sunday. Dad is asleep and I am resting after setting out my house plants for the summer. I hope they don't get frost bite. We have been cleaning up Dad's fossil room upstairs this morning and brought down all the plants there but 3, - one, the Venus Fly Trap, really seems to be doing all right. It is such a hard thing to get to live that I thought I would leave it up in that environment. The geraniums were just coming into bloom so I left them too. 

Dolores called up a few minutes ago. She has a head cold. She is all over "Lonnie" and has a "Frank" now a pre-med who makes zoology quite heavenly for her. She wants to take one course this summer in the evening. She has been over to the Pentagon to apply for a summer job and they said there would be no difficulty and to come back a week before she wanted to start. She has a lot of studying on hand, as usual. 

You didn't say whether you went over to the Weatherby. I suppose you are pretty busy now preparing for your finals which must be due now within a few weeks. I hope this latest Homeric hero doesn't upset you for Finals. Try not to let it get you up and down "like buckets in a well" as old Chaucer characterized the divine glow. I hope you can get your botany mark up a bit above a C too. 

Chapin started for NE Friday. Barber was up to N.Y. last week and had a lot to tell me of his trip there. I enclose a clipping of the art show. Helen and I may have one more look at it. 

Love, 
Mother.