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Mary Metcalfe

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Personal Letter

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Mary M. Metcalfe

5537 Waterman Avenue

Saint Louis, Missouri

Dearest Mommie,

Today I received your letter with the newspaper accounts of the Junior League girls in the R. C. + the article by Virginia Irwin. It is such fun getting these pictures + clippings out of the paper.

I told you that I just missed Virginia Irwin when she was doing this story. She left for the place I was, coming + I was on my way where she had been on the same day.

Kay Curtis + Judy Hunter are both nice girls. They are no longer here, but left last week to go back on a Clubmobile. They were on the Clubmobile, where we have been, all last summer + until the first of December where Leslie + Bibby came to take over.

Last Friday I got letters from you written on the 6th + 9th + one from Jane on the 11th.

Your cute Easter cards came today. You certainly timed them perfectly. “News by the Peck” (1) also arrived today.

Since we have been off a Clubmobile, there isn’t much to write about, because every day is pretty much the same, as you can tell from what Virginia Irwin says.

Bibby came back from London last Friday, + Leslie went there for her weeks driving course after her leave in Edinburgh. She took all her luggage with her, so I don’t know what she will be doing until our Clubmobile is ready.

The girls at the “Sinker Club” are all new now. The girl who takes Kay Curtis’ place is Gretchen Schuyler, very nice used to teach phys. ed. at the Chapin School. Her assistant is Kitty Heissler from Baltimore. The other girls are all brand new + came over as hospital aids, (sic) but were put into Clubmobile. They are nice but not as attractive or as much fun as Sally Peters, Pat Hurley, Jean Hatcher, Bonnie O’Bryen, + Fran Olsen were. The new girls are Jinine Eason (the nicest), Betty Allen, Miriam Netterstrom, + Evelyn Graeber. The last one is definitely not suited for Clubmobile. She is very serious about everything, and is a typical school teacher type, which she was before joining the R. C.

The other night five British naval officers came to dinner. We had a very nice time. Played “The Game” after dinner.

I had to take my uniforms to be fit for the third time. The blue ones are cut too big + long + the skirt too full, so it has been some job getting it fit properly. The price of fitting + cleaning is amazingly low over here.

One afternoon we drove way up on a hill just behind where we live. The view is beautiful, looking down on water surrounded by mountains. The country all around here is really lovely.

I think I have told you the only things I really want or need, such as clothes, shoes, + some Kools. (You might send some candy + cookies (if there is some kind that would last awhile.) (If you could pack some toilet water I would love some) (also some more Mary Chess Gardenia or White Lilac talcum powder.)

It seems strange for it to stay light so long. Now with double summer time, (2) which started Sat. it’s light until 9:30. We have had some really lovely weather for several weeks.

Well, happy Easter to everyone. I hope I shall have some exciting news to tell you the next time I write. How was Davie’s visit? Do you know his address? I have asked for it in almost every letter I have written but I never get any reply about it. (I would really rather have pictures of everybody more than anything I can think of.)

Lots + lots of love, Chichi

(1) “News by the Peck” possibly refers to Seymour Peck, a NY Times journalist.

(2) Double summer time meant summer time hours all year in Britain, but the clocks were still set ahead an hour in the spring making Britain two hours ahead of standard time and giving more daylight hours in the spring.

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