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 I've just finished reading Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - and enjoyed it very much. It is not a novel, but a sort of autobiography and many short

biographies of "help she has had, neighbors, and incidents, even recipes, all about Florida life, 200miles or less, North of here. You will enjoy reading it aloud to Max. And now I have another new book Angre [sic: Angry] Pavement by J.B. Priestly. I read his Good Companions a number of years ago and liked it, and I hear him occasionally over short wave B.B.S. as he "does his bit" by cheering and philosophising and explaining.

 Thanks for your father's letters. Shall I return them? or simply put them away with yours? Glad he likes your picture - tho he couldn't help it. Have tried to get it framed, but find it impossible thus far, and probably for the duration. His reference to Russia, which I wanted especially to see, shows that he had the prevailing idea of the average American of

Russian inefficiency, instability, etc. - I'm glad I kept track of their activities all these years and felt sure that they