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Arlington, VA. 4 Feb 1948

Dear Doris:

Your letter quite cheered us up. Dad had come home feeling blue and worried, - his stomach is upset and he was afraid his eyes were strained, etc...he always gets hypochondrical when anything is the matter. But he quite livened up after your letter. You seem to be enjoying it and I do hope the 2nd week isn't proving too hard for you. Am glad you went out with poor David. He is nice to ask you, probably a good boy, of your own age and equal tongue tiedness. Congratulations on your marks, Dad thought they were pretty good too.

It is dark and snowing like all possessed this morning. Dad went off feeling uneasy altho the report is that the snow will change to rain later. My Baptists are driving too, so I will join them shortly. Sue is a good driver and a pillar of strength - probably her Baptist beliefs. 

Helen came down yesterday to lunch sparsely at the Mellon, - she is trying to reduce. Then we went about viewing new additions there and I met Mrs Adamson who moved to be at the Corcoran. She is copying a French portrait. She is the wife of a retired Army colonel, who lives up at Warrenton, but is down for 3 winter months here, and is a very good painter, has won several prizes. I am going over again soon to see the progress of her copying. She asked of you. I don't suppose you remember her, tho. Helen & I went over to the Pepsi-Cola exhibit, full of monstrosities. But there was a nice one by my old teacher, Cikowsky. 

Now I must hyper along, 

Love
Mother.