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We have passed through two years of financial horror and uncertainty, but it appears that I have been able to fight my way back -- and it has been a fight. I always enjoy overcoming difficulty--- or I may as well say I enjoy it, for struggling against terrible odds has been my lot. I have to fight with a straw and make it seem to be a 16 inch 20-mile gun. Our museum is now operating on a 50% basis, but we have had about $40,000. worth of CWA and TEA help which enables us to function. We werev scheduled for 81 special relief workers this su mer, but may have only 60. It is quite a task to think for them all and concoct work to keep them busy--- but any time I can't keep people busy I am in bed. I think up plans for Ph.D chemists, physicists, engineers and the like, and then plan work for artists, preparators, and educators, and find time to plan out expeditions for our archeological staff-- all outside of the regular work. You know something about keeping a staff busy and happy. Ours is happy and harmonious. I never say a staff of museum workers more cooperative.

The farm-- as we call it-- is beautiful these days. We seem to live in the sky and look off over a broad expanse. Our grapes look wonderful in spite of the terrible drough and blistering heat. Our garden is a gem if it doesn't burn up, and we are trying hard to make it burst out in bloom. Anna really works too hard out there. Our precious Martha-Anne is just delectable. She is the sweetest, lovliest little love ever. In many ways she resembles you in your childhood, even to sucking her thumb. Oh-oh! She seems to have prophetic instinct and so many things she has predicted have happened that the natives about us are quite superstitious about her. She takes for granted that her wishes will come true that it makes me hold my breath. She has even invented her own religion which is a sort of pantheism. However she