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Arlington, Va.
16 Aug, 1951

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Dear Ma:

I endorse a clipping that Sid has torn out of the paper and insists on having sent, though I assured him that both you & Mrs Barry were aware of it all right. Also a Belgian's little card that he sent me with a book of reprints, thanking me for my "interesting work" (on myochrons)

It has been a cold stormy day & the temp is falling in the 30° tonight. I hope it doesn't get down in freezing. It is so chilly. I wet my feet going to the grocery on the way home and the bag in which I had all my groceries got wet and they were all spilling it. So between them and trying to hold an umbrella up in the wind I had a time of it. I saw one woman slip & take a nasty tumble in the wet. It has cleared at sunset. now and is all starlight and cold.

Doris is having a lot of exams this week and didn't get home till after we had eaten for a late supper. Her old lady is back again after attending a convention in Atlantic City. She is 89 years old, very alert, but her eyesight is so poor she is unable to read and can barely see her way about. So Doris has the job of getting in lunch & reading to her & spends 2 hours a day with her.

Sid has just been going over a paper of mine that I have typed up to send off, - to the Canadian Entomologist about the collection I should in Paris.

And Doris is getting ready now for bed and Sid has already installed hot water bottles in his bed and maybe mine, and we will all be a bed before 9.30. 

So goodnight.-

Doris.