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Stoughton January 23rd 1938

Dear Doris

We are having a nice warm sunny day. spring like& good having cleared in the night. the wind is good and dries the clothes & also the mud. I have been out this fore noon at work emptying my ashes & digging among my flower beds, theres [[there's]] no frost in the ground. the January thaw has been on so long & this last warm rain has left the soil free to dig. I suppose it will freeze up solid again, but on the whole its been rather an open winter.

I am anxious to see Mort Lamb to talk once & find out about that man he sent up here to interview me. I did not even find out his name, I said as little as possible thinking Pa would get exerted [[excited]]. you know he gets queer notions into his head & its hard to get him to be reasonable. but he happened to be all right this time.

I am not sure but he was the man who came here to see me last fall & I was not at home. Alice & her mother showed him through the town in the Glennons [[Glennon's]] car & he ate lunch there. Alice showed me