Marcia Kirwan Standley Papers

4 This weekend we hope to get our first chance to really look around. Lexington & Concord are about as far away as where we were living in the motel. The Swan boats on the lake on the common operate thru the end of Sept., & Pooh read about them months ago & has been dying to see them, so we'll try to get there this weekend, otherwise we'll have to wait until April. The kids are hoping for snow soon. It just might, too, since the winter weather is running about a month ahead. We can wait. The mts. in New Hampshire are already covered with snow. The leaves are in full fall color, too.

Thank you very much for the $150 you slipped us when you were in Palo Alto. We will certainly put it to good use. We're going to get in as many excursions as possible while we're here, including, we hope, a trip to the NY. Worlds fair next summer.

School is very interesting. I'm pretty much caught up after missing the first two days of class. I have about a ton of shiney new text books. We brought all the other books, too, so we've got quite a library. We've decided to ship the books on the return trip, since the rate is so cheap. Jim is hoping to avoid a trailer on the return trip.

Well anyway, we made it, & our address for a while (11 month lease) is 262 Harvard St., Apt #1, Cambridge 39, MA.

Hope you had a nice wedding anniversary & Virginia had a happy birthday. Just how did you celebrate the dual occasion. Hope Virginia's off & running well in school.

Love, Marcia

P.S. Hear you're having a heat wave. If you can find any, would you pick us up 2 dark green terry-cloth chaise pad covers. Our old ones wore out & they are out of season here.