October 8, 1943 (Page Two)

Page Two

Hi,
I’m glad to hear Bob finally got home. If you must have a man in the house I can’t think of a better one. I guess you’ll have a house-full this winter, with 7 dogs + 11 cats, etc. You can tell Bob I have a ribbon too now- it looks very lovely, but it seems very doubtful if I’ll ever have any more. I’d sure like to hear about the Marcus Island rail from him. No doubt you read in the paper about the air raid at London last night-it made headlines here. I wasn’t there but some of the boys were + they said it was quite a show. Unfortunately I can only tell you what I read in the paper, and I’m afraid to quote much of that. But they did say hat the city’s new AA defenses are both effective and spectacular.
Yesterday Janson and I went to Cambridge + had a very interesting time. We were conducted around by an 80 year old retired colonel who seems to be an amateur antiquarian and who was both informative and entertaining- a most delightful character. I’ll tell you all about it in a longer letter. For the present, I think I’ll go to bed. Best wishes to everybody.

Love B