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2632 Woodley Place Friday 6:20 p.m. Darling - Hugh and Toni are due to pick me up for dinner at any moment this is therefore just a starter. Leaving the Navy Building tonight Hugh and I almost crossed paths with Admiral King. Neither of us saluted; Hugh said he was “taken aback” and I was to engrossed in counting the number of stars on his shoulder tabs (4) that he had gone down the stairway before I realized who he was. He looked very trim in his tropical worsted grey uniform. I had lunch with Jack [C?] today. Sat. 5:20 pm Aboard the train en route to you (or about to be). I'm in the air conditioned diner - a great relief after standing in the biggest crowd yet and dripping all over inside. 6:30 pm (My salad arrived at that point. They make an excellent Chef's salad Bowl on there trains, with big lumps of Roquefort, or a reasonable facsimile thereof). Just had dinner with a Wave (product of Northampton) whom I was next to in the laundry line today [in short, she was an awful drip] Tues. 5:10 pm (in Lucille's office) (More later!) W. Tues. 11:40 pm Precious, The evening is sweet and cool - fragrant with all sorts of mysterious scents - and there is a crescent moon. Dining out Rock Creek Park this afternoon and partway back, just now, in Lucille's open convertible, I thought of how much you’ enjoy being with us - or better, just and I and the convertible. It was a pleasant evening: a couple of old fashioneds on the back lawn, with “J-J” and a little boy from next-door playing round about and getting me to stand on my head or throw them around some; Mrs. Bushakoff's tasty supper of cold roast beef slices, a wonderful vegetable mixture stuffed in well-cooked peppers, avocado salad, Beethoven's 3rd played satisfyingly aloud while we listened to it outdoors; then Lucille showed me some trophies which had just arrived with Bill's trunk from [Kiska?] - a ridiculous looking anti-gas rubber uniform, a water-purifying pump, medicine bottle, a heavy wool blanket. Having taken along my pocket dictionaries I deciphered the inscriptions. Tomorrow's the day, darling! (Or will it be sometime next week?) Until soon- Your devoted husband W. Lucille says that many doctors now advise getting out of bed a little as early as 3 days after childbirth, and resuming exercise gradually but early. The point is to avoid undue muscular slackening.
