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Dear Emmy Lou:

I started to write you some details about living with Jonny. He paced the floor a bit and then suggested that we agree on[[strikeout]] a [[/strikeout]] program which dad laid out this monring and therefore it would not be necessary to write you about it and "stir things up.".!!!
I agreed. So wwe will try it all out and he has agreed to police himself and we shall go ahead on that basis. (Pray for us!)

On the positive side, I think he is probably being conscientious about his music and practising as much as is required and maybe a little more. I asked him if I could meet his teacher the first time I took him down there, but he did not want me to--- However, I dropped in another day and had a short conference in which he was very pleasant and cooperative. He said that Jonny was gifted and that he was doing the work he wanted of him--that four hours a day on the piano should be enough so far as his lessons are concerned. What he does for Mr. Silva I can't know but at least he works on it. He set 6 hours a day himself, to practice on the piano---I hardly think he has averaged that, since he has two days when he takes lessons --but he seems to be going OK in his music. Jonny does not know that I saw Schwartz so do not give me away.

The Battle of the Bath was was [^every other day [?]] the other but he has said he would carry out the schedule^ so we will let that ride ---- 
He has done quite well with the dishes, so that part is OK too. Also with his bed and room. 

This morning he said rather arrogantly that he was a "paying guest" and that he should be able to watch TV whenever he wanted to. I disabused him roundly on the "paying guest" bu9ness and told him he was only here at all, because we [[strikeout]] r [[/strikeout]] were helping him out because we thought he had talent to develop---also to help you and Byron---that he was not paying anything more than the cost of his being here---that this was a family that he had entered entirely at our invitation--that we were giving up our guest room while he was here---- that it was a family cooperation to help him with his music --no profit to us whatever--that I would not dream of profiting on you people--- Curiously, he asked about Walter--and I said that we did evrything together on agreement and that was the way he also felt about it-- I said we had learned to talk things over and to make a plan which satisfied us both and then we never quarreled about it---
     (And I did suggest that Gale was having trouble because she had not learned that)
      Well, let it go at that and we shall see how it goes from here out. But he definitely does not want to take it up with you'!! Good old ogre, how I love you!!
      No doubt you got the news of Judy's baby. THe picture looks exactly like little Bill ---
      Maybe Donald told you that my brother Norm died on July 8-- early Sunday morning before the doctor could get there--an easy way to go--funeral July 10. It would be nice if you wrote to Viola.
      By way of anticlimax, the cat, Henry has been "put out" at the vets because of camcer of the liver---poor Florence Bardell weeps but is getting two Siamese cats--in whom I shall not share.