- August 15, 1943.

Dear Jane and Hoot:

I read your letter, Jame, last evening, and noted that
Hoot's strap watch was broken. You mail it to mo here at the Univer~
sity and as soon as I receive it I will immediately take it dow to
Julius Marks end I am sure that he will replace it. I am so
‘that this happened because Julius sells first class stuff end I can
not understand why it would not hold up.

‘Also, write me the history of how it happened so that if
Julius sends it back to the jobbers for replacement I :
to go along with the return. yey anne vr

I'am sorry thet Foot is still in the
hos vindictive you people feel. But that is all
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It seems that life never lets us ease up on SOOre.
I imagine you think Eleanor hasn't any worries now, end can just sit
and dream. Well, she is mortally afraid of infantile ise We
had one woman here in Lawrence die of infantile paralysis
of the bulbar type. It affected the medula oblongata which caused a
cessation of the respiratory apparatus. ‘She had been ill] but one day.
She was 27 years of age. Eleanor just misses her two years. You
can't get Tuck to a show ~ she stays in the house away from flies, and
she is miserable. I kid her a lot end omrry on, but it doesn't help
her a bit. Just think of a young bride with infantile paralysis:

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