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September 18

Dear Mother,

We're closing a very busy week end. Our house guests have finally left, having received their furniture & moved in today. They were here two weeks and were in general no trouble, but towards the end things got a little cramped & tempers flared a bit.

It was a lovely warm day today & we took our friend Gladys to the beach. The night before we'd been at a party & retired about 3:00, so we didn't do much but relax in the air (Jack swam a bit.). The little girl, Eugenie, was very cute. I showed her snails crawling about. This evening we had a group over & didn't get to eat dinner until they left at 9:00 p.m.

Next week we have a political meeting on Tuesday night & the rest of the week (till Sept 30) the NY film festival, to which we have 7 sets of tickets. On the next weekend we have rented a sailboat on Saturday - are going to a wedding in New Haven, Conn. on Sunday. Perhaps - I hope! - we can get to Washington on the next week end or the one after. I know for sure that I