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2632 Woodley Place Thurs 6 p.m. Hi, Precious - Just had a nice, cool shower and am ready to go out to dinner with Hugh and Toni when they stop by in a little while - unless they decide to eat down town or someplace far way. Tonight I just feel like eating a bite, phoning you and coming home early. I've just written a postcard to Mother and Father, and a note to Scottie in which I asked her just to go ahead and have the bookcase crated and shipped if it wasn't more than 5 or 6 dollars - addressed to you but c/o Mrs. Couture. Scottie will notify me at our N.Y. address if she does ship it; you open the letter and let Mrs. Couture know, perhaps leaving some money with her. It might be well to say something about it now. After eating two or three last night, I took the rest of the brownies to work this morning and shared them at coffee time. They went even better than the cookies (several guys sounded as though they hadn't eaten brownies in along while) and I have been asked to thank you by Messrs. Deane, Ebling, Corrigan, White, Bruce, Beusm, [pg 2] Mike Hodes and one or two others. I also save one out for Mr. Shaw (he was busy at the time the cookies went around) - he's a delightful man to work under: knows his stuff, is quite informed and good humored and is easy to learn from. In the past two or three days I've added 2 neckties, 4 ea. of shorts and skivvy shirts and 6 pair of socks to my wardrobe - just in time not to have to wash anymore. 8:20 p.m. Hugh and I had barbecued spare ribs, French fries in little strips and about the most delicious sauerkraut I've year tasted washed down with ale at a place near here. Toni had an attack of her allergy this afternoon and couldn't come out. I thought of dropping in just now - Hugh went off to find her something to eat while I telephoned you and preceded me back - but I'll see her soon; the three of us may go to see the Williamses before long. I don't really [pg 3] know whether Joanie and the kids are here - just a second; I'll call and find out - 9:20 Decided to consult the Deanes before calling the Williamses in order to make a date with them all. However, Jack and Simone and the kids had just moved to a new address with as yet no telephone and I'll have to call at his office during the day. They have a house now - the address is 10113 Kinross Ave. SilverSpring, Md. Hugh and Toni's telephone number, just in case you can't get me here, is AD[?] 5283. Had fun while I was out (on the way home from telephoning you) buying you a small present, or rather two of them. They were mailed tonight, and this letter will be tomorrow - I suppose it was careless of me not to arrange to have this get there first to give you a little suspense. But perhaps it will anyway. Yesterday we got through with our first routine job at the office and are now doing something a lot more interesting. The other [pg 4] was pleasant at first but got rather monotonous; this requires at least a little thought and initiative. We are, as a matter of fact, engaged in writing a book, but unfortunately you'll never see it. Mr. Shaw handed us out another book for our permanent collection today and we all clustered around like small boys reaching for lollipops. (I hasten to assure you again, however, that things are on a somewhat more adult plane here) It's a character dictionary on the Thorndike word-frequency principle - [?te] 6000 most used characters and the degree of their usage. With the exception of footnote references in the preface to Thorndike and others, it's all in Japanese and organized more or less like Daijiten. Don't let me forget my trunk this weekend, sweetie. Also, please lay out a pair of blue jeans for me to bring back here as shorts aren't allowed in the field (at the base of Washington Monument) where we play. Anybody in Washington you want me to look up? Darling, you mustn't think of all the bad things that might happen! They won't. I love you so much dear Warren
