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1007 West Oregon
Urbana, Illinois
September 17, 1956

Dear folks,

We arrived in Urbana at about noon Friday. The trip was longer than we had hoped for several reasons. The first and worst hindrance was the weather Thursday morning: we were in a dense fog for the first two hours, which slowed us in a part of the country where we should have been "making time". Then came the mountains, which are always slow. On the plains things got faster but traffic was heavier and roads not double-lane in most places. We made it to somewhere north of Dayton by about seven and stopped. The next day was pretty quick, except that it rained most of the morning. We really get a help from Mother Nature! On the last trip there was nothing but rain.

On Friday afternoon we had enough time to register and for Jack to see his advisors. It turned out that the meeting he thought he would have to attend at 4 was to be held the next day, but it made registration easier to arrive when we did. I had some difficulties in becoming a citizen of Illinois for the benefit of reduced fees: noone [[no one]] seemed to know [[strikethrough]] it i [[/strikethrough]] how it was to be done and I went back and forth from place to place. One fellow said he had spent one afternoon and was not yet through; fortunately all the girl had to do was to look up the fact that Jack was a resident. It cut my fees down from $200 to $90, some help! I got all my books but the Russian text, which was either sold out or not in; looks as if Russian is getting more popular. There are two full (about 20) sections of it, I was surprised to find out. Probably the Russian teacher was a little surprised too, for she had told me over the phone that she wasn't sure which would be given, the one o'clock or five o'clock section.  last summer.