Faculty Club

university of california

Thursday, 8 PM.

Dearest Ava Helen:

Your sweet letter came this afternoon, pleasing me immensely, although I felt sorry for Pete, learning that the world is hard. I'm glad Dr. McMillan says you can go East with me. I'm looking forward to your early arrival here. I don't care if Willy is a filly.

Today I spent largely in working on my lectures. In the shower this morning I washed my hair, which gave me a cold, so I got some aspirin, several tablets of which seem to have been effective in stopping its course. My lecture was well

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attended and, I think, well liked. While getting the aspirin I bought a book at the drug store, "Thirteen Men" by Tiffany Thayer, and already I have read two-thirds of it. I think it very clever and amusing. Have you read "The Greek" yet?

Tonight I went with Rich to his father-in-law's house, and met his f-i-l's second wife, who is not Jewish, and is from Portland. The f-i-l himself is also not Jewish. He is a minor official in the Bank of America, and is, I should say, a respectable middle-class business man, with a pleasant home on the

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hill in Oakland. Portia, Rich's wife, is not at all bad; she does show to some extent her mother's features. She is working as a stenographer, and Rich is going to school + working in a restaurant, + both of them make some money by reading in the blind school. I think they'll get along all right. They seemed please with my present. Rich is trying to get a teaching job after taking his degree in May.

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I am going to the Library now, and then after reading a while to bed.

I love you, darling, and wish I had a nice girl here to sleep with.

Your own

Paddy