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Fran to her Mom & Dad; Feb. 19, 1946  Oak Ridge, TN

Fran to her Parents in Bloomfield, Conn.

  On stationery marked Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation, Post Office Box P, Oak Ridge, Tenn.

                                                                                                  Tuesday, February 19, 1946

 Dear Mom & Pop,

   Well, if you’re not coming down, I believe I’ll come up.  Fly!!  I’ve been wanting to for some time.  I’d like to come when it’s spring—say April or May.  Do you have a preference?  It will just be a weekend plus a couple of days as that is all the time I should take off.  Course whatever weekend I choose it’ll rain.  This is a long way off I realize, but I just gathered the information & it would go like this:  leave Knoxville at 9:40 am, arrive Brainard Field 5:05 Sat. afternoon, Hartford time I presume.  Short stays in Washington, Baltimore & New York.  Then I’ll be there Sat. nite, Sun., Mon., maybe Tues. -- travel Wed. arriving back in Knoxville at 6:26 pm, a convenient time if anytime could be convenient to get back to Lenoir City.  The whole thing sounds wonderful to me.  Will you pick me up at Brainard Field?

 I had vague ideas of quitting and keeping house actually.  Not that the house needs much keeping, but I am so uninterested in this job.  So I had a talk with the boss & he decided to rearrange my job.  I don’t see much difference yet, but maybe in time-- & he recommended me for a raise which I shall see whether I get or not come the end of this month.  It’s silly not to come in and collect the money, I suppose.  I certainly don’t work very hard for it.

 I don’t know whether Ev has a job yet or not.  Dad, is there any chance of helping her get on a newspaper in Hartford?  Apparently, she’s having a hard time getting anything because of lack of experience.  She seems to be willing to do anything.  I’ll bet she’d be good if she could get started.  They thought she was excellent in the office at the labs in New York.  You probably know thru Phyllis of those tests that Evelyn took at Stevens & that journalism is supposed to be her bent.

 If I could only spend my working day writing letters I might get thru half of them.  Say—it has just occurred to me that I never thanked Evan for a wedding present received long ago.  Fran sent me some wonderful bookends that were all smashed when they arrived.  We’re corresponding with the U. S. post office about the matter now.

 The wealth of washcloths should certainly last us till we get out of East Tennessee.  Thank you very much.  They are so nice to the face.  The slip is lovely—fits well.  Good candy.  I received Mrs. Duffy’s card right on my birthday.  How welcome is mail. 

 I received my allotment checks from the government finally, by the way.      

                       Lots of love, Fran