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1007 West Oregon
Urbana, Illinois
February 8, 1956

Dear folks,

The weather is clearer here now, and warmer after our cold and snow spell. The snow is going fast but will take several more days to disappear. On these very wet (evaporating) days the car has great difficulty starting. We haven't put in spark plugs for years and must soon. Also, I believe we will put on those little rubber covers which enable you to start even in damp weather. One Saturday we were unable to go down town to shop, and last Saturday we had great difficulty starting. This cannot be!

The new job is indeed strenuous. I don't see how it could have been a part-time job before, for I haven't sat down a minute yet. There is much to mimeograph, but by now I find the use of the machine easy. Students are registering and course material is being prepared.

The wash is a problem here. I hang things inside, over the refrigerator an d under the hot air vent, a few at a time, and take the sheets to the laundromat. It is too cold to dry anything without much freezing and consequent weakening of fibers, and I cannot wash everything by hand. In the2summer I can use a line outside for the small things.

Jack registered today. He is taking a light load in preparation for his qualifying exams, one of which courses is graduate student French. He has language exams, of course, in two languages. German will be the other. Besides that he is taking the second semester of electrodynamics, a lab course, and a math course.

This morning the people upstairs dropped an air mail special delivery letter through the floor -- it had