If your luck holds, at the rate you have been collecting, we 
will have to send you more supplies! It seems incredible that you 
should have so many ppecies in so short a time. 
The renovating work in your offices has progressed to a point 
where they were able to move the furniture back into your small offipe, 
and they are putting on the last coast of paint in your own office and the 
Regents Room. 
Mr. Oliver is back on the job but doesn’t look too strong as yet. 
He says he gets terribly tired toward the close of the day, and he sounds 
like it. It takes some time to get over the effects of sulpha drugs. 
We had our first thunderstrom last Thursday. It turned very 
warm yesterday with the result that the cherry blossoms are in bloom. 
Spring is truly a beautiful time of the year in Washington - the parks are 
simply a riot of color. I am afraid that I am going to be forced to take 
an afternoon off soon, get in the car and satisfy this nostalgic feeling I 
have for a drive to the tea house along the river shore and a stroll in the 
gardens ! I feel the need of a little change, and to get away from the ’phone 
and paint fumes ! 
I hope that you have found a comfortable place to live in Chepo 
and that you and Mr. Perrygo are not working too hard. My very best to 
you both. 
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Sincerely, 
