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NAME Dr Miriam Van Waters
STREET AND NUMBER Box 99
City Framingham, STATE Mass
Dec. 2, 1945

Dear Doctor:
I have heard that there has been lots of snow over
in your country-you will be pleased as now you can use
the show shoes en route to Hill Top and enjoy something different.

Thank you for giving me news of Mrs. Thompson. I am
happy to know you found her looking very well. We three
do have many things in common. So many of the same "like."

You seem to have done a good job in N.Y. at the
American Prison Congress-I will grant you cant take a
stick and beat people over the head (wouldn't be lady-like)
but I am positive your influence will be felt in many places

Our friend Roger Baldwin of C.L.U. was in
Chicago Friday the 30th of November and made two speeches
on at least I read where he was scheduled to made them

My cousin, Berl, has started divorce proceedings against
his wife, Hazel. Which I do not approve, as I think
he is listening to his prejudiced family and relatives instead
of making his own decision and standing on his own feet.

Miss Rice will be home for Christmas and will see you.
She is keeping in contact with the Rockford people and plans
to visit them the first of the year. To see is some satisfactory
plan of action cannot be put into action.

Christmas is almost here once again. So far we
have had no real cold and only a few snow flakes which fill