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}510 Sf)cond Street, SE REF ID: A22 6330 9 .. Wa.ehin~ton, D.6. ~003 e November9t 1965 

Dear Annie and Boris: 

Botp ~111 and I have been feeling guilty for a long time, because 

we ~).;l'ev not written to you. . As a. matter of fact, the last letter 

we hfid from you was from Fryksos, and you mentioned that you would 

be leaving Sunds8r for Zug about Septmber 15. You would have heard 

from me in September, if you ha.d signified that you would be un 

Sweden the latter part of September:--the reson being that our very nicest neighbors on this block, Allan Wilson and his wife Vera, 

were planning to leave for Sweden about 17 or 18 September. Allan 

is from Nebraska of Swedish parentage, and even speaks Swedish 

ae he learned as a baby and small child from Swedish maids, but he 

had never been in Sweden, He was so excited a.bout the trip that he 

took Swedish lessons at the Embassy and polished up his speech. 

Both of them ha.ve been in Europe many ttmes, but never in Sweden. 

He had to go over for a meeting in Vienna--no, Munich-- so lt seemed 

the logical step to take to go to Sweden first. So since I was sure 

both wives and husbands in this case wouldffh1t it off 0 ,a.s our American slang puts it, in youb case, I was really sorry that you could 

not meet. 

Here we had a simply frightful surnmer--there have been higher temperatures· before, but the humidity broke all records. September nearly 

killed. every one off. October was a decent month, now we are having 

very unlikel~ mild weather for Novemebr, so of course we will pay 

up for that, beginning any da.y now. Slnce. there had been almost no 

weabher for months when Bill could go outdoors, we were planning to 

enjoy October's usually good weather. But unfortunately one of these 

ghaatly flu germs or a virus laid him low for three weeks, with the 

result tbat he has only gone out the last six days. 'The long illness 

with.the wracking cough have made him so .weak.he can hardly navtgate • 

With -the weatber bein3 so frv.strating here, I have been arguing again for getting out o:f Washlngton, so we discuss and discuss. Re does 

not feel strong enou.e;h to get clear away from the United States or 

even too far from here. There is no year-round equable cltmate 

in the u.s. except possibl~ in San Diego, Callfornia--which ie very 

close to the Mexicqn borde~. The combination of ocean and mountains 

there as they reach the tropical area, seem to combine to make an 

average that sticlrn throughout the year. So we have given up the 1 

idea of finding a whole-year-round cllmate. And I suspect 111? Bill 

has b.1£.way, we shall not leave here. At the moment he has sworn that 

r shall never get him back to Europe again, at least we have progressed 

that far. (Which reminds me, he would like to tell him how to go about 

getting the money of h.is which is in the Zug bank back to America. 

He has the cheque book and can write a personal check for the amount 

there, but we cancot be sure of how much there .is there. Fe has record 

of the amounts withdrawn, but his f lgures might err in some way or 

other. Should he sign a cheque leaving the amount blank and.send it 

--and the cheque book itself, of course, for closing out the account--

perhaps to you? Iff~bat would not be too much trouble for you? 

Or should he send it direct to the banJ? 

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Wednesday morning, November 10. I assume you have heard of t.he I 

gigantic power failure over Northeast U .s. last evening, covering .·' 

80,000 square miles( including the part of Canada affected also) 

and affecting about 20 to 30 million persons. I am not supertitious but I have a. feeling the enormous 0 gr1d" system for power in one great 

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- wide-spread area., pa.rticularlr, covering the most populous ara·1n···the <;'\), 

~- entire country, is a kind of 'tempting fate" .proposition. If for- ~owerseign.Aever developed some supernatural means of affecting the atmosphere 

in am$'rtxtxiEi& an invisible, 18'-'\1.k-of-touch-contact manner, we are 

ilost. Bill and I think u.s. baa "got too btg for its breeches", 

to use an old country eaying--the country has gone absolutely mad o· 

over computers. The dratted machines are do1n5 eve1"rthtne,;. But 

thei can only do what they are told to do, and they can 11 slip a 

cog', as well. So who knows?--Perhpas_this ghastly, llterallyUNBELIEVABLE experience is the fault· of a computer. 

Well, we were out of the area.. So we are only bystanders. J'or 

wh 1ch '!'hank GoodB.ass. 

We do hope Annie is very much improved and rested after the summer 

and that your plans for Locarno a.re 3oin3 \-Jell. .As 1 understand 

it, your Locarno residence will not -be ready until sprln5? And that 

then you plan to seitl the apartment in ~lenton? (Now there ls a 

place I'd like to own~. But Bill, as I.said before, ls not for 

"becoming an expatriate 0 , as he puts it.) (ofcourse that apartment 

is not~?nly too expensive for us but aloe too large.) . \;, . . . We have a letter recently from Stuart Hedden. They s·pend the entire 

year in their Florida home now, and have sold their Connecticut house. 

The:lr daughter and husband ltvein Albuquerque now and so Stuart and · Mabel travel east and west in the South and do not come north at all 

any more. He had just flown to New York on some business before he 

wrote; but I think Mabel bas not been north for more than two years •. 

As for Florida as a place for us, it ie much, much. too humid 1n summer--even more so than here, al,hou3h the winters are a great improvement on this area. 

I can't tell you how often I think. of Zug, as well as all the rest 

of the place'3 ln Europe which you have made so pleasurable for ue .. We long to see you both, and do hope you will be coming to the u.s. 

soon. 

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