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week, and then we will go to the south of France where he owns a castle between Bordeaux and Toulouse that has been in the family for centuries and his son, who is a prof. of math somewhere in France will join them and they will have "two golden months of vacation" at their castle. He has some English. none of the others know a word and my French is so limited too that most of our contact is very painful.- we gesticulate and they shout at me. But so far I have gotten what I want.

I am going to miss Sid who leaves tomorrow. Doris has been going about more and gotten the hang of things. But he goes in for ordering things, seeing we take the right buses, etc. and hence forth we shall have to make our own way. He has had a good time here, tho, and enjoyed very much perfecting his French and meeting a lot of people. He has enjoyed the little restaurants & the wines and people that pass. He leaves tomorrow on the 4 o'clock plane for Stockholm which should arrive by 9.50 PM. In that northern country it will still be daylight. We plan to follow to Copenhagen the next week, by ground - not air and will be 2 days reaching there on the level.

We have a good hotel not far from here, near the Gare de Lyon (station for Lyon in the S. of France). Sid & I have had 1 big room. Doris a little room above us. I shall move out into a little room when he leaves. In each room is a wash basin and a "sit bath" - a sort of low wash basin, on which you can sit and wash your under parts and legs; - most convenient sort of affair. Then there is a huge wardrobe to hang your clothes in, a table on which the man deposits a tray with your breakfast at 7.30. You have a plate of croissants [[image]]-shaped, very flaky tender bread, with a cup and 2 pitchers, 1 small with hot milk, the other big with coffee (?) It doesn't taste in the least like coffee, and is probably just chicory. There are 2 lumps of sugar for your "coffee" and 2 croissants apiece.

After breakfast you finish dressing and leave for the day.

P.M.
This afternoon an American entomologist whom I know slightly, Zimmerman from Hawaii, a Calif. fellow who married a Newton, Mass girl hunted me up at the museum. He said he had heard I was there & been up twice before to try to find me. He stayed a couple of hours with his wife talking. They have been in Engl. a year and aren't going back for another year. It is their first trip to the continent & they will be here about a week. He expects his car to be shipped down from Engl. & then they will drive to Switzerland, Italy etc. She said he would look me up again, - Americans hang together very well in foreign parts. He knows all the Wash. entomologists and likes to gossip about folks very much. 

Sid is packing up his bags. He has bought here a plastic rain coat, 2 jars of French mustard, 2 towels