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11-7-63

Dear Mother & Daddy

Thank you very much for the check and the
chaise covers. Both have done much to make us more
comfortable here, in diverse ways. We're about as settled
as we're going to get before the end of the semester.
There are a lot of things I'd like to do, like scrub the floors
with clorox, but all but the real essentials will have to
wait. School comes first, & it's really a rat-race. I got
started late & am still trying to figure out when & where
I'm going to study. It seems like every time I think I have
a few hours & sit down, something happens. The only sure
time is between 10:00 P.M. & when we get up in the morning,
& I'm a little worn out for that. It will get squared
away in time, I'm sure. These little insurmountable
obstacles always do.

The kids are doing pretty well in nursery school &
kindergarden. Reading readiness isn't moving quite
fast enough for Pooh, & here in the good old-fashioned
East, the lesson-plan & not the child sets the speed. They
like the emotional climate & the kids, so for now we're
satisfied. Pooh spends her time at home covering paper
with letters, asking one how to spell every word she knows
& reading letters off of labels asking one what they mean.
At school, after learning each letter, they're busy copying
the alphabet over & over, which is a good idea for [p?]