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Dear Sara and David: Please forgive my typewritten letter but I had to go out of town yesterday so have a lot of things to do this morning, and did not want to wait to thank you both for the very thoughtful telegram and the lovely picture frame. It really is a handsome one! As you know, I have sort of given up celebrating birthdays ever since Herb died because our birthdays were so near togetherthat it was more pain than pleasure in the celebration. Ruth, however, thought that this was a particularly significant one so she organized a surprise party for me Sunday night. I was sent out to play bridge in the afternoon and when I got back, I was introduced to the idea of the party when it was too late to do anything about the party but to enjoy it very much. Everyone here seems pretty well except Fannie who is really miserable I am afraid. It is really too bad that she has to be put through a thing like this. If our plans are not changed, Ruth and I are going to New York the end of October, primarily for me to go to a meeting of the American Assembly at Arden House, and then on the way back we will go to see Sandy at Duke. Shrub has had a real stroke of luck. He is doing his six months military you know and has been transferred to The Presidio in San Francisco, where he will probably stay for the balance of his service. If one has to be in the Army, what better way can one spen.i the time than in San Francisco? Again many thanks for thanking of me and with all my love to all the Westons, Devotedly, Mr. and Mrs. David F. Weston 26 Elmhurst Place Cincinnati 8, Ohio.