(seq. 82)

M. Lois Rice - 6027 Kenwood Avenue - Chicago 37 - Illinois

Monday, August 14th

Dear Doctor,

If this letter doesn't turn
out to be a literary masterpiece
attribute its weaknesses to the heat.
The temperature has been well up in
the 90's ever since I returned to Chicago,
+ I can hardly believe that a week
ago tomorrow morning I was almost
shivering. If you hadn't brought that
warm water in the tea bottle, you
could never have persuaded me to
take a sponge bath, but I couldn't
refuse with the hot water right
on the scene - you probably