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February 24

Dear folks,

Monday morning brings chill again.

Did you find out what was the matter with your car, Dad?  I'd be interested to know, if it is anything hitting new cars in general.

Weekend of study, tho' not too much accomplished :for while there seemed so much I almost despaired, then went at it in old slow way, enjoying.  Shall have to find some [[strikethrough]] where [[/strikethrough]] part not to grind on:  which seems history:  [[strikethrough]] yet [[/strikethrough]] I worked so slipshoddy last term for a B:  yet that is hard to give up, tho' least hard.  English requires slow concentration, as we have to analyze style minutely;  our first paper in 233 is [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]] to find the bad metaphors in Donne.  It is not as decreationizing as it sounds, and all through college I have been getting better & better at this [[strikethrough]] new [[/strikethrough]] way of analyzing poetry, & consequently enjoy much more in a good poem.

No, Bill has not worked at the Reycko.  Last term a psychiatry course was [[strikethrough]] however [[/strikethrough]] inaugurated, at the students' (his included) request; & he goes to all lectures nearby on subject, mostly at Harvard.  When in evening.  We are going out tonight, as Tuesday is a holiday.

Tell me about the Cissie Patterson affair.  I asked Helen, but don't expect her to dare a very full answer.

Love,
Doris

Transcription Notes:
“decreation”–is a word. Destruction or destroying or undoing of an act of creation. But maybe she made up her own word to describe how she was analyzing poetry, sort of picking apart a creation (a poem), and getting rid of the bad metaphors.