u.s.n.h. 
Hovembor 22* 1940 
Dear .Dr. Soha&tti 
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-t guess. lb is quite a while since • I haT© written you. I wish you 
had a chance to get mail off of toner i this business of keeping up a one- 
sided correspondence is kind of hard.* . ‘ 
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Your diary has been aoaing along all right and I have it all typed 
except tiie last batch. X am up to the point ■where the dates seen mixed, or 
something id wrong* Don’t know whether I oan get it straight or not. 
ihe .Morgans (Don and Eleanor) ar® .back la torn. She called me up 
last Monday. Ur. Phil Morgan is also with then, with his new wife. The 
i'hil .Morgans .have a trailer* and the .four of. them are down- in the tourist 
. park* Don .Morgan with Ms house oar. The four of them came into the office 
Jednesday*. the day before Thankegivlng , aadDoa asked me to show Phil and 
hie wife the stack* :our card catalog* and catalogs. vftdle they were here, 
leaner called up Mrs, Schmitt, and arranged for her had the children and 
3350 ^ x;:ve land; with .then in -too tourist park today. However* this morn- 
ing Mrs. Schmitt called me to say Eleanor called her again yesterday to 
call it Off. Sit© said we would try to ■ get together again some day next 
week, I think* I thought it ms very nice of' them to' include -me so corially 
again. > Phil’s wife; is a nice-looking woman, about Helen’s height* but 
heavier, and about Helenas age 1 should judge. At least he didn’t go off 
aikf marry some young thing* (won’t you lov® the - way X sling their first 
names, arc itiau ’s. ...just between you and ms ; it’s a much easier way of 
referring to theta all.} ..... 
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.h'io Morgans said they were not celebrating Pranks giving, but would 
hav© their Thanksgiving next week. Me had ours yesterday. I had dinner 
irith Plorenco in her now apartment. There were just the two of us* and we 
spent o. very calm day. ; 
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I talked to Hope Rathbun not so long ago. ■ - She said Miss Rathbun 
is about the same— in good physical condition* but doesn’t know anybody, not 
even ajc- Rathbun .family. Seward takes lior out for a rid© about every day, 
and they have gotten a whit© woman to live there with her, besides the 
coloreu mil, I asked Mope if lass Rathbun liked visitors * and if she would 
liko *ov &A3f of mb %o corns sss h®r oo os.® 3. oniii \y $ bivoxi Isiiou,. ii slio woul dn * t 
knew, any of. ue • Hope said* !, It sounds brut&l/but, frankly, l don’t think 
sno cares whether any note eornos or not, and it would only be embarrassing 
mac, difficult i‘or the visitor.” I’m just as glad she fools that way about 
it., : . I wouldn’t enjoy going over there, would do it if I thought it 
would ; d$ any help* and 1 doubt if Mr. Shoemaker could be persuaded to go: 
and course . Maloney would be. out of the -ruestion. 
. . i,ii *. Carpenter was knocked down about two weeks ago by an automobile 
aid is^ quite badly injured. She was crossing on the groan' light and the oar 
ms maxing a isfjcx right turn on the same light. The driver was a young 
colored man with no insurance, lire. Willis xtsanpx stopped in her® this 
mornxng. taid sue said she didn’t think it was altogether the driver’s fault. 
