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515 Bah Court
Champaign, Illinois
July 30, 1958

Dear folks,

We will move this week end, tho' still eat at the old place until the following Saturday, when the "new" refrigerator can come. Things are slowly getting ready. The new drapes are up but not all yet re-ironed to hang straight (rest tonight); the bookcase is painted and mostly up; the gray fiber rug has came and is mostly unrolled. There are a multitude of small things I work at on the noon hour and every evening.

As for our vacation plans... we can't leave until the latest possible date, for the sake of my salary and Jack's work. This puts our departure date roughly on [[strikethrough]] July [[/strikethrough]] August 25. We plan the northern route, as of tonight -- to Montreal, Boston, New York, D.C. We should get to D.C. by about the 8th day out. I want to visit people in Boston and N.Y. and not rush through Canada. That leaves about a week in D.C. We must be back on Sept. 15 for school. This is our tentative plan -- see some wild country, visit old friends, and spend the longest time with you.

Last week end we went up to Chicago for the celebration of a bunch of birthdays -- Shirley, myself,