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366 Tues. 6. Nov. 11:40 am Dearly Beloved, Two letters from you this morning, including a delightful one written on my birthday, and two cards to show me what we are sending out for Christmas. 1:50 Houston brought in my lunch on a tray; then Barry came in and got to talking: he told me how he came to write his first book, a collection of stories - “Heroes and Hero Tales of So. Dakota” - and his second, a biography of one of the state's pioneers, a General Beadle; then, after I encouraged him, he related the plot of a historical novel which he has planned and about a third written. It will make a good story, a fairly rough-and-tumble Western with an actual setting. As you have gathered, I am being a good boy today and staying in my quarters; am writing at the table, but am still in my pajamas - the cut-off ones. I have two pairs ready [pg 2] to send you - if I decide that I can do so in good conscience; with all the liquid I have been facing down in the past three days I've sweated liberally in there and they may have more than just a gentle scent of me. 9:45 pm Can't seem to settle down to writing! Spent the day reading and sleeping; the reading was mostly in a collection of essays by Julian Huxley, “On hiring in a Revolution.” Tonight I got up for dinner and later, with Barrett, attended a P.T.A. meeting at the school. I'll try to do better tomorrow, Sweetie. And from now on, just as soon as I recover my energy, my only aim is to wind up my affairs here, get packed and return to you and Wendy. I love you Warren
