Saturday, 9 PM

Dearest sweet love:

Your letter of Thursday was here this morning, and was I pleased to read that your mother is to arrive tomorrow! You see that the mail service is good.

I have never told you our schedule. We rise at 7, meet at 7 ³⁰ for breakfast, and at 8 ¹⁵

leave for Bruceton in the Expl. Res. Lab's automobile-I think it's about 15 miles away. At noon we drive a couple of miles to the Curway Hotel [?] (which I told you about ) for lunch, and at 5 we start for home. This weeks I stayed here all one day (yesterday) and all morning till 1-another day. Here after I think I'll come home with the errand boy in the lab car at 3 PM. Saturday we work only mornings.

Today I took my laundry to a Chinese laundry near by. I was just about down to nothing.

It has turned hotter-and of course the humidity is high. There was a

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thunderstorm from 4 to 7. I was in my room reading. Now that I have a tub bath I bath 2 or 3 times a day.

I've just got back-at 8 ³⁰ -from a late supper with James + Mark Farinhslt [?] and Lorie Rahm (a mech. eng. from Princeton-friend of Bob's). The late hour was due to the rain-we eat at a restaurant 2 blocks away, because the food at the hotel here is poor.

I've been reading the New Yorker's little footnotes-"Dept of Understolement", etc.-and laughing out loud, the way Liny does. I don't suppose that they are any funnier than usual\, but they made me laugh.

A letter come to me today form Eduardo Cruz Colse of the Universided de Chile, in writing me to a conference in Santiago from Jan. 10 to 20, 1943, and saying that official invitation would come later. I'll send the letter to you after I've answered it. It mentions

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[On the same letterhead]

my work on "systematic antigenos". They seem to keep up to date in science!

Holmes said today that he was having much more fun than he could have had on any vacation, and I think that it is good for him here-he has no responsibilities, nothing that has to be done even if it takes all night, but only interesting new explosives to look at and watch tests of and interesting reports to read, during regular hours. He brought a big batch of British reports here for weekend reading, although there

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was no suggestion that he do it, so I think that he is no longer tried out. I'm going to leave him go to Wright Field and the Bell Labs. And Washington and perhaps other places, to complete his education.

I've brought a Sunday paper, so as not to miss out on the funnies.

It will surely be fine when you arrive. Pittsburgh isn't half bad -it's main drawback is that you aren't here.

Give my love to the children and your mother. I adore you, little sweet wife.

Your own

Paddy