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#99 Monday 8 Jan. noon Dearly Beloved- Just received #113 (having shipped 112) written the same day as the telephone call from Muz and also the very sweet letter from the latter which I think I'll enclose. Fun getting them both together. I’d like to save it - just put it in with my letters, as I often do enclosures with yours. I love the sketch of Muz's and yours ([?]) are even better to get than your favorite cartoons. Try some more. Congratulations both on drinking and on knowing when to stop New Year's Eve - both are accomplishments, big ones for you! Very much interested in what Walter had to say about sooner. You can be a little less discreet than you are in telling me things. I would repeat what he said as though it were just speculation on somebody's part without naming names at the same time. It is I who have to be careful, both to say nothing prohibited and to avoid making provocative statements for you to guess at their meaning. You may write just about anything. Love the description of Wendy scratching “with a look of rapt concentration”. Guess by now Doug has either seen you or telephoned that he can't, or at least written. That's the next thing I'll be waiting to hear. The mailman has certainly been good to me in the past few days. This morning I also received, in addition to the Christmas edition of the Southwestern alumni gossip sheet [pg 2] (they certainly are persistent, aren't they, after all the shekels I haven't contributed!) 2 packages of our Christmas cards. I've only begun to look thru them - was glad to find the picture of Jean right away and will keep that, probably returning the cards or most of them for you to put away if you wish. The picture of Jean showed a considerable improvement, no? tho I think I’d like the serious one better. Another glance at the cards - see a lot of them I'll enjoy commenting on when I return them to you. This is my letter for the day. I shall not write tonight, because I stayed up to 2 am last night (my Christmas and New Year's Celebration all in one) writing you, and enjoyed every minute of it. Until eight or so I'll be seeing a movie at the playground - second one to be shown exclusively for the school kids here, and first on a regular schedule of three times a week which includes adults two out of the three. Just ordinary American movies speak more eloquently than any propaganda we could put in it, and the Education Officers are trying to get ahold of the best ones. Tonight's is Tall in the Saddle, a grade A (so I'm told) Western. Till tomorrow, darling I love you for always Warren
