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the baby start for Washington Sunday morning. You will miss them exceedingly, but I suppose you will have to console yourselves with the thought that you have had them with you for a longer time than most parents have their out-of-state children with them. And then, too, Doris is so good about writing that it almost seems as though she visited you there every week. Perhaps they will plan to come up again in the spring.

Wednesday evening I plan to take Cynthia - the girl you have heard me speak of so often - in to college with me to the celebration of Virgil's 2000th birthday. Professor Rice and Professor Cameron will entertain us with talks and screen pictures given in Jacob Sleeper Hall, and refreshments and chats will follow. I am looking forward to a good time.

Thursday, I believe, is voting day. I hope to get out there, and may stay over night, but can't tell for certain yet.

Jimmie sent me a letter the other day enclosing a check for $5.00 which she and I had won in a contest. I think that it is the first contest money I ever won. However, we had us great cause to congratulate ourselves, for we were among the lowest of those who drew prizes at all. The first prize was $1000. I shouldn't have minded getting that. Our manuscript was perfect and neatly got up, but apparently many others must have been artistically done as well. The thing was a Ripley word hunt conducted by the Boston American. Evidently the editors are trying to increase their sales of the paper, but I don't buy it.

I am enclosing my check for