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14, Rue du General Ducrot
Strasbourg, France
October 31, 1960

Dear Mother,

I guess this is the last letter to go to you in the States. I'm sorry that you were so alarmed in the last week. I didn't realize when we'd written last. We moved, and immediately things became difficult: the poste is miles away, we had no stamps, there are only a few letter-boxes in the city (in big squares), etc. I've gotten straight how many pages cost how much & can send them out without weighing now. The hotel had done all that before.

Anyway, we are on a holiday week end and Jack is rather impatiently awaiting my readiness. Yesterday we drove down to Colmar (Alsace), in which there is a very fine museum housing a collection of medieval paintings and the famous Retable (alter paintings) of Greenwald. That is really a wonderful work, a series of religious scenes done with a