10 PM Friday

Dearest love:

We've had our annual dinner. I wore my beautiful pearl studs--also pants, shirt, etc. The speaker wasn't there - he was sick, + Roberts gave the address. It was very good. He said he would give us the organization chart of the Phil. Soc.

[the diagram is written in outline form:]

Miss Noonan

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Eisenhart--------------------------------------------------Lingelbach

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The vice-presidents The Janitor

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The president

Mrs. Sioussat said that we should visit them sometime in Washington. She said that she once drove 910 miles in one day - alone - bringing trout from the Rockies to Los Angeles.

I talked with Aydelotte before dinner, standing + thinking that he looked bad. He said, "Let's sit down", + suddenly fell backwards into a big chair, which slid + struck a big screen.

Did you know that he was knighted?

I read a book every day, and go to sleep about 2AM.

The dinner was shad with roe.

Chaney says that chinese are all dishonest - not the chinese communists, but all of them. He says that he likes them very much. I think he means that their culture is such that you should not take what they say at its face value.

Do you remember that Simpson said that Peale's Mastodon had been sold to PT Barnum + lost in a fire? Now he has found it - in the museum at Darmstadt, which bought it in ~1854.

Mrs. Bernadotte Schmidt likes Max Mason. She is a cousin of Seth Nicholson.

Love from your

Paddy

Emeneau in his talk today said that Ava is Dravidian for "Oh, my mother" (vocative, I suppose).