9 AM Tuesday December 17, 1935

Dearest Sweetheart:

Your letter written on the train and your first letter from home have arrived, making me very happy, although I am afraid that you will be upset by Grandma's serious condition. On receiving your telegram yesterday I called Dr. McMillan and then telegraphed you and sent a card. Please send for me if conditions begin to weigh on you too heavily. Tell Grandma that I love her and that I am looking forward to her next visit to us.

Yesterday I finished correcting examination papers and assigning grades, and worked on a paper with Jack. Last night after dinner with the children and after putting them to bed (Peter in our bed) I went to see Lena and Sidney, who had asked me to dinner (I thought it better to stay with the children for meals). I took Lena some candy. At ten I came home; then Bob and Angy stopped by for an hour, saying that they had been driven nearly wild by Bunny the night before at our house. When they left I started to read and drink whiskey and ginger ale, and went to bed at 2:30 - it is getting harder and harder for me to go to bed, even with Peter. Reba came while I was at Lena's, bringing Marie to visit with Lola and bringing some yarn and knitting needles for Lola. Lola likes Reba immensely. Lola has been perfect.

Tonight at 7 I am going to the Tylers for dinner - Betty just called this morning; I thought of refusing, but decided it was better to accept, the children being in bed by 7 anyway. Now I am going to write a hemochromogen paper with Coryell for next month's Proceedings Nat. Acad.

I love you with all my heart, little darling sweetheart, and we are all anxious for you to come back to us. Be sure to call me to you if the situation begins to weigh too heavily on you. The children will be all right without us for a while. Oceans of love from

Paddy