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MRS. MAY WALDEN 420 West Bell Street, Box 853 AVON PARK, FLA. July 11, 1942.

Darling Tafern

 It's been too hot to write lately. Now, after a good cooling off in the but, and a breeze blowing, maybe even at 92 [degrees] I can manage without sticking to the desk, the paper, and everything else.  I find it lots hotter in this little old camp-cottage than in the stucco and plastered bungalow.  But - there's the money, so why complain?
 Have just made out an order to Sears, Roebuck for goods for 3 thin dresses. I'm almost all out of thin dresses. Tried one on at Mrs. Otis' this morning (3.950 but it was too small. I get the goods for 3 for $3.56 and

on side: thunder shower coming. Do you handle air-plane insurance? I think that a greater menace here than hurricanes. I don't mean insurance from bombing, but from practice planes. Miss Voght was telling me about it this a.m. Ate a pound of big fat sweet cherries for my lunch - Beginning to feel hungry. Much love to all. Mother