Viewing page 5 of 146

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[insertion]] March 6, 1930 [[/insertion]]

5
of cornmeal mush. Oh, but it was good. The town was full because of carnival, but if I'd sleep in their store room they would [[margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] put up a cot for me. Naturally I was only too glad to accept. [[/margin]] I have enjoyed being here. They are very interesting people. I am drying up plants and driers this morning. The boat today is the first one out [[margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] since I came. Corumbá is hot, the first place I've been where it is hot [[/margin]] at night. It reminds me of when I used to live down in the city in Washington, before I moved to Casa Contenta. Of course my mosquito net makes it still hotter. - São Paulo, [[insertion]] Mar 9 [[/insertion]] Sunday night, at the Kolbs again. I was delighted to get your letters of Jan 18 and 28 when I got here this noon. I read them