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Aug18 1948

Dear Dad:

I have a month's part-time vacation, so I'm at home working ten hours a day instead of at work, working eight hours — I have a show at the museum in November, and so I have to cram a whole year's paintings into one month. I won second prize at the State Fair ($300.00) last week - a welcome surprise. Mother and I drove up to Clara's a couple of weeks ago - we argued politics all afternoon but didn't get anywhere. They won't read any of the books I give them, and do read the daily press, so their opinions are just what the rest of the American people's are — anti Russian, anti-Wallace (not quite, but beginning to be, since he has been "exposed" as a "Communist") etc etc —its sad to see how successful this kind of propaganda is being here.

I haven't been to Palo Alto for a few weeks, but everything was going smoothly last time I was down. Donald seems well adjusted and happy.

Mother is in Monrovia, where Clara and I have been wishing she'd go to find out about these runs of temperature and so on. I guess it's nothing too serious and she'll be out soon.

My job is still fun - I'm still working on textbooks on city planning for the schools -

lots of love,

Emmy lou