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15 Keene Street, Stoneham, Mass.
November 9, 1934

Dear Folks,
  Well, here it is Friday night once more.
  This forenoon I put on my spring coat and started out for a walk, thinking that the weather was so fine I should not need my winter coat, but I was too chilly in the thin one to go very far, so came back and went out back of the garage, where they used to be a henhouse, and got some extra dirt to put on my plants.
  I put the foliage plant slips that you gave me into two large earthen pots, and the cactus slip into a small one. All are doing very well indeed now. A few of the smaller ones died, but I still have two thrifty shoots of the rose-colored, rounded leaf one that I liked especially well, and a number of the darker ones. The cactus is sending out a little bud on one of the leaves. You would laugh to see me toting the pots from window to window during the day, and then back to my desk at night. When winter comes, I suppose I shall have to put them in the hall at night. They make me think of spoiled children.
   About four this afternoon I started out again for a walk. I guess I have just got to keep up the effort to go out regularly; for my stomach has been going on a strike since the colder weather has come and I can't sit out of doors as I did in the summer. Today I have been drinking tomato juice and milk. For breakfast I ate half a grapefruit, and at dinner time I ate some cottage cheese. Tonight Mrs. Smith is going to have oyster stew. I shall eat some of the broth. I also put on some salted rice (no sugar) in evaporated milk to have to eat as a cereal with milk. I am trying strenuously to get back to normal again, you see.
   I suppose that some of these fine days you are able to get out on the porch. Or is it too cold to stay out there? I am so glad that you have the oil heat. What would you do if you had to shake down that old coal heater and carry out ashes? I guess you enjoy the bath room and warm water too. Doris wanted to have a hardwood floor laid in the hall as you have wanted for so long; but probably she thought that you were having enough going on for one summer with doing the rooms over. Have you had the living room done yet? I do hope the paper is something that you like. Didn't you see it at all before it was put on? I hope so; also that you have had a chance to go up to the cemetery to see the stone before this. Mrs. Glizer is so good, perhaps she has taken you, or will when you go out again. I am glad she comes to take you out. I wish I had a car so I could come. 
    I was disappointed not to get to Stoughton for election. Curley is feeling pretty corky; isn't he? I suppose we might just as well laugh as cry about the way things came out. Perhaps they won't be so bad as we fear.