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April 20, 1949

Dear folks,

Your postcards have been inviting.  Especially the cyprus swamp, the sky and water being truthful; & recollections of yellow-bellied crisscross barred fish from therein.

Tis cool if sunny here, has rained every day or two.  Magnolia mountains were grand.

We went to "Medea" Monday night & shall to a concert tonight.  I think we shall fight tonight, I feel very aggressive & he always does.  Fun.  People have been battling all over the place: sophisticated Annabelle Handy doing ju-jitsu in the streets, dignified house president Levy (Alexia Livermore) having a magazine fight which just about tore up the living room last night.  If we don't, it won't be worth it -- cause everyone is letting off steam or suffering now as papers - exams approach.  Georgette notes the dining hall pitch rising nightly.  I had a good sleep for a change, 8 hours at night & 4 more this morning: began  [[strikethrough]] getting [[/strikethrough]] giving blood again (involuntarily) Monday, which was almost a week too early.  Have done lots of work tho despite tiredness: did finish history save for collatoral reading; read 60 poems by Yeats yesterday, a weeks' work.  Now a quiz tomorrow in Ec.  I shall tell Bob Varis Friday (he was sick & didn't come