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3416 North Glebe Road
Arlington, Virginia
February 1, 1956

Dear folks,

We are having very snowy weather here, snowing every day and not melting much. Today snow fell off and on all day.

My new job, which began last Thursday, is going well. I work for the Department of City Planning and Landscape Architecture, a new field which started, I believe, at M.I.T.; at least the head of the department, Professor Wetmore, went there. He is a very pleasant and kindly man, youngish, and gives me most of the work. There is a great deal of mimeographing to do -- class programs and problems, etc. -- and a fine mimeo machine that I am learning to use. There are five other professors, three young and two almost retired. All the some 75 undergrad and 10 graduate students are men! My salary increase amounts to something like $30/month. The building is about four or five blocks from our place.

Dad, a question occurred to me today. Did you once tell me that there was a new blight for the sugar maple? Sugar maples are being used rather extensively as replacements for dying elms, and if there were much material on the subject, it should be known to our Landscape Architecture people.

Jack got a B in his last course, which was the grade of the vast majority of the class. He's o.k. Right now he should be starting to study for qualifying exams, and does a little a day.

I am making a [[strikethrough]] slip cover [[/strikethrough]] bedspread and curtains for the bedroom soon. The bedspread I bought