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Dearest Ma :

like handwriting: it is sa cold here I cant rwke srly headway with

a pen and have to w3r!c nst to hit the wroric key with i~iy two riunb

index fingers. Yothing do these fcllrs Amow of warmth that ccl;ieE

from mans effort, hostas they lesve with the gales suckiriL thrcugh

then sn the coldest days and they sit still and shudder and grcttn

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at the barbaridade sf the cc;ld, I have sriljr tleeri om stove fcr

heat giving, or rather fireplace it was, since I have ccme to

Prazil and that was in Wlllianfion's hGUSe in Flcrianspolis,

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It isnt that I dcnt like the cold ! It is exactly the

saae sort of self-heating as WE: had at #S General Eosp. with

clear sky-blue weather instead. of overcast, and a zest for getting

a mxe cn thats a delightful change frclii the eteriial ea,e sf the

warmer climates. I h. ve done more wcrk with pleasure and satisfaction

here thah ever in Florianopolis. But cold it certainly is, and

the dawns and duskd are ncticeably ionyer than in Sta C . or the

Korth (Bra-il) .

Yhe Serihora acrcss the way has Just stepped out intc

the norning sunlight, her bare feet arid calves lcclr blue arid per-

sonally I would have learned to knit in these 3p cdd brim years

she has been in Torres--- but 8he hbsnt. Her baby of I, months who

was flying of overdo& zf lauoanurn last sumner when I was asked ts

see him, is n3w with sore eyes arid. brcncho-pneumcriia follcwinE

measles, She weeps and I visit tihree times a day but the baby is

g3ing strong &rifl getting no gray hairs from the general lact that

he's got..five older brothers and will men havc. aysuriger one,
that he% given dirty csws midk from an Ayer's Cherry Pectoral

br,ttle with a nipple as big as a newel1 post. I d4nt Bee vihy I

am burdening y=u with all these details: perscnally I arn glad

I dont have just tnis phase sf practice to attend to. r:lleanor

cculd be a patron saint in this village in b'rlout twc weeks: but
she already 2mows ah !That Fun it is t; be a District Saint, an8

I duubt if the idea thrillE her,

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'It is queer thgt in all the time here in BraLil I d;

nct think I hve ever been iisKed in letters a ccricrete question

by any 3116. nh yes,';'riti: Tctlbct,a baby specialist tzsked ne socle,
but n3 cne else. Isrit that Queer? I wculd hL'vt; thousht you mu12

have asked about flowers ZL-~ lace aid my health ( I lauch - deli-
ate suhjects yxre interested ill), that Father would. have aek d

about 7rotestantisn arid the Eiraxilian Scctch-Irish and the HLr-

vard Club of Xio, that XtirjDrie might have asmd about the greet

spera of Guarany arid the local cnstmes sf the reGions arid the
traditions =f the Jesuits and Gregcriari ch:ats, Lhat Jim would

hcLve asked about Brazilian csons and tht race question here etc

but ns airevt out and cut questlous hitve there be.t3iA. 50 bb it--

I VI;LL:?W *bv!,l~r, I a3 ri3t very g~d ut dogiru sut what you are all
interested in-- biaing 011 the questisiis Ltn there be "ny.

excellent health, capable of rininf: three successive mrLiiiigs
at three to half past (three), Fatness and baldness are acre
difficult t9 be scjrnful about but have riot actually arrive6.

Zorty I no .longer conaifler the eve of old age am? twcilty one

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in 3tht;r po7le 1.ooks 1.t~~: LII Ci less like the davm of uaturity,

HE tr, sLzc::%~-pc~ ai? ihi~y stcries, but %s b~ shce le:*C1~.cr zrid

interesting expriences am still presentable in the 1.Iissouri sense

r;f the word.

I have bo?x,%+ ;.:u sene lace arid have wished time arid

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angain ycu cculd see bhe Ilowers here, ~hc cx=t;r zf vedctd'oie
life in Lhe trcpics would deprdyou though: the virles writhe
cver and' cften kill the ;iroud.eeC trees anc? everywhere is parasit-

id-eals of fair play wmng vegetables, iIy inveteratie Dbjection to

weeding proves n~y i'air-rriiriiledriess towards all plants; you will

be witnesi? to the fact. Sc perhaps ycu wsuldnt mi,,a aeeingar a

big bree rlaning with scarlt t 3rchid.s or lsoking like EL wraith

cf shioke with the hanging L~SSS called here barba c?e veihs,old

rmn ' 8 beard- .

I niss letters I'I'GLI you, but really unaei.starid ..hjj

you aont write arid. probably wcrit write ziy cff-spring wheu they

go sut tc :iar;ischa.tkh in 1967 to teach the mtives riot to pt

f roat - bi t ten.

Cheer50 arid the

Tith [%'K

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