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[[strikethrough]] April [[/strikethrough]] May 1, 1949

Dear folks,

I have some bad news for you, which I do not like to do. Contrary to our expectations, Hope, Maria, Eva Mueller, & I have been accepted for July and August at the Waterville Inn, Waterville Valley, N.H. in the White Mountains 20 miles from Plymouth. It is reputed well-handling, & the manager sounded very friendly. We have a tennis court & swimming pool of our own, uniforms are provided, good lodgings, & $40 per month minus tips. Believe me, I really would like now to spend all the time with you; in this growing up the revolutionary spirit has almost completely gone. Also Dollars. But this project will give me [[strikethrough]] 12 [[/strikethrough]] 11 days of vacation after exams, to come down or for you to come up (with Dol?): from June [[strikethrough]] 14 [[/strikethrough]] 15 to 26, when we are to report. The work will be vigorous, but the T-H was extremely tiring as well, & the climate much worse. We four are good friends and will really relax most well together, all being very good gals. Learning to live with them obviously would be good. I know how hard you have been hoping against it, I really feel badly. Truly this has all been hard, and all my troubles (or most) spring from too close dependence upon a fond & tolerant home. Independence, the quality stressed here, has been so slowly [[strikethrough]] won [[/strikethrough]] & incompletely won. (This declaration is foolish.) My only feeling that counts is that this great insecurity is forcibly becoming socialized, & in