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

July 18, 19744 -

Darling Tafern:

I'm glad I didn't go to the Highlands. I'm having fun writing to the Tampa Times, getting replies, and then making replies to them - Have just finished a reply to a Lakeland woman who asked me when Earl Browder or the Communist Party ever put the interest of the U.S. above that of Russia? I replied that as she "probably knows, the Communists have always been Internationalists and their interest in the welfare of the Soviet people has always been equal to their interest in our own people. Not one above the other, but each for the other - Not competition, but cooperation. Any other questions?" I've been working hard over the peaches from my little tree. They rot around the pit, and it's lots of work getting them ready to can. I now have 6 pints canned. And there are more to do tomorrow. Midge had 4 kittens yesterday morning while I was