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Stoughton Mass
19 July 1944.

Dear Sid:

I hope the neck is all straightened out now and no more trouble. And I hope it continues cool. It is cold here, and Doris even has a bathrobe to keep her feet warm nights. Is your drought definitely broken? Hope you get showers to keep the ground damp. Are our tomatoes beginning to show signs of ripening at all? Do remember to water the azalea & African violet out back.

D. and I have stayed home working around the house all day. We have at last done the lawn, - it was a fearful job it was so long. We borrowed the Ballentine's lawn mower and afterwards I bought it. They had a newer one, much heavier, and I thought we would rapidly pay the $6.50 they asked by doing the lawn ourselves, - since no one can be hired at $1 a lawn. You can't buy lawn mowers now and ours wouldn't work, - it was so heavy and slid over the grass without cutting. The Ballentines