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Mrs. May Walden 420 West Bell Street, Box 853 Avon Park, Fla.

6:50 a.m. May 16, 1944.

Darling Tafern:

The beautiful book ends were in the office Monday afternoon and I taxied home with them at once. They were beautifully and artistically packed, tied with wide white ribbon in a big rosette - all that anyone could desire for a Mother's Day present. Thankyou very, very much. But they are not bears, my darling. They are tigers, but they will hold he books just as firmly. I called [Vadeen?] to look before I unwrapped them as they looked so pretty. The blood sweating behemoth, Messerschmidt, has been given an inferiority complex by his son Elmer. Both wanted to be husbands to Midge, but Messer had to retire. It didn't do Elmer any good thought for Midge hates him and fought him off. Her favors went to Mrs. Godwin's old yellow alley cat. So about July 16th I'll be drowning kittens again. I've a notion to

bound to be read now that Boston has censored it. Miss Smith says she is sorry, because low-minded readers would be attracted to it in the expectation of finding pornographic, but she says they will be disappointed. This gives you a membership in he Book Find Club. Saw "North Star" twice. A wonderful picture, am going to dentist this aft. then to see "The City that stopped Hitler" The Catholic church forbids its members from seeing "Lost Angel".