October ll, 1941.

Dear dane ant. Ziweod:

Sclehcis < bien pious Aicoaein Ove’ panthe bev ith
down and write you a long letter in longhand. But this is Saturday
morning, it is 9:58 aeme, and I have not succeeded in doing the thing .
that I had hoped to do. However, I did pass up the. Nebraska-Kansas
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Hilton and Isabel, along with Tom Van Cleave, Jre,

spd Vein tun, Gant isu dee, They are going on to Omaha to
spend the night with the Newcomers there. Mother did not care to make

the trip to Lincoln, as she is not that enthusiastic about the game.

She said that she would rather stay at home and spend her money on
sgn ig sinrap’ yoreyec ier I had arranged to some back on the bus after
the game, but I figured that I was so far behind in some of the necess-

ary things to do here at home, so I better stay here. The dope does
not favor Kansas, and I doubt if they will win, but I rather wanted to

get away for a day just to look at things from a distant viewpoint.

We greatly saprasinted your calling the other night.
I know of nothing that pepped Mother up quite as. much as your calling.
‘She is lonesome and homesick for you youngsters as well as for Bob and
Eleanor, and although she doesn't say much about it I can tell by her
conversation that she is pretty lenesome. She is bakingva cake for
Eleanor for her birthday Monday. Eleanor will be twenty years of age.
Mother said this morning when we were at breakfast that.it hardly seems
twenty years since she bad the first pain for Eleanor. ‘She said she
renembered it so well and how tired she was, nk. SENSES, See
she could go through with it.

I remember the occasion very well because the stadium k y
was not finished and the field was not in shape so we played at Haskell. 2
We were playing Drake University, and Drake beat us Seat ay = 4 re-

_ member that, too.

And then, you remember, little old towheaded Tuck,
ket, and she went as Tuck, for short. Bleanor says that
Tuck at Penn, so I guess she likes the name. I _

she was so quiet and demure that Tuck just fit her. ?
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~end perties anyhow, so that just fits them. ee ay
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