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Arlington Va
11 April 1948.

Dear Doris:

This is your crowded weekend and I trust that it has passed off pleasantly. We shall be anxious to hear how everything went. Now you can settle down to your books again before the next week.

Dad and I have had a quiet Sunday. Yesterday was a bright cool day and I painted around the piazza & the front and back doors but didn't get to the floor gray paint, and when today turned showery, didn't attempt to finish. Instead I cleaned the pantry and Dad spaded up part of the tomato patch. This afternoon after our nap we drove out Bailey Crossroads way to see the great building up of the countryside out that way, - huge apartments right up to the Fairfax Co line and beyond that many new houses. The Weisz place will soon be surrounded. We drove out to Annandale and back a back road which we took a stroll thru the pine woods, and broke off a few dogwood branches. On the way back we investigated a wood road back of the new houses down by 4-mile [[strikethrough]] road [[/strikethrough]] run, and found an old half burnt house where we found flowering shrubs. We looked thru one of the half completed new houses. Altogether we had an interesting afternoon tho' it was a heavy mist and chilly.

I enclose a copy from the Univ of Wash. Bulletin that Loretta Walkley brought me last week [[strikethrough]] after [[/strikethrough]] on D Easton.

Chapin drives up to Mass. this weekend for a fortnight. He will be in Cambridge one day. I had another letter from Bequaert who plans to be here May 2nd. That is Plummer Is. day & Dad wishes he could get here in time to attend the oyster roast. I must write & invite him.

Have you tried to get your shoes yet?