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Fran to Bill.  Feb 28, 1945  New York City 

Fran Carroll (SAM Columbia) to Bill Allman (SED Oakridge) 

  (If that’s not your number your address is at Nash)                         Tuesday Nite

    Dear Bill-

     A full moon and a star and dark here tonight.  And a session with the dentist and one completed lab report behind me.  Plus 130 at the Bowling Alley prefaced by 111.  Some far day I’ll make 140 again, my first score.  Evelyn says send you her love.  It took me three extra-long hours to write about my experiment re: The photo voltaic cell and its use in comparing illuminations.  Not to mention its calibration.  If this is an indication of time/lesson, my life is going to be bounded on the north by elementary physics on the south by elementary physics on the east by etc. etc.  We had to quit bowling at 11:30 because there wouldn’t have been time for another game before 12.  Will New York survive the curfew?  I thought it was to save fuel, but there is an ugly rumor about that it is to get war workers to work on time.

  Does Doctor Sanford’s story end there?  Naturally it is finer to be on the outside than the in.  But is a pardon like that complete?  Is the whole business annulled or does he still not have his license to practice medicine returned to him?  I thought that was the worst feature of such a charge.

  If you want to you can stay at our house when you come up.  Besides the fact that we always have an extra sleeping spot, Phyllis isn’t going to be here that weekend.  Tho I told Dick Grove you were on your way and he says they have lots of room.  At any rate we have mutually agreed that it is the final end if you hire any more hotels- convenienter though you may find them.

  Questions you cannot appreciate, questions in letters or letters or something.  Can you remember back to the last letter?  What the devil are you saying?  You were talking about Cummings- I had never read him till this book Phyl picked up in the library.  1x1 is the name of it.  Some of the poems are wonderful, some incomprehensible.

  Somewhere along the line I developed an aversion to telephone conversations other than why haven’t we received those dualseal (?) pumps we ordered last Wednesday.     Whether it’s due to friends who chat thru five cigarettes requiring no response and producing apathy on my part.  I only say that because I’ve just finished such a one.  Whether it’s a carryover from that or whether a subconscious memory of the what’s-it-all-about-if-anything sensation I experienced the first time I talked to you via the Bell system, surrounds me.

   Be that as it may, I would rather the object distance be equal to zero or that it is practically zero, so hurry up.

                                                Fran

  They aren’t my subways.  Are you the kind of person who states expansively, “Consider your Connecticut hills for a moment”. Or “Now you take your modern ballet”?