Another letter, another matter-of-fact request-for-money-without-quite-asking. (This time it\u2019s about insurance for her contact lenses; more about that in a future letter.) Also another reference to the advisability of kissing men with beards. (And one of the very few references to her father\u2019s father, though it\u2019s not enough of a description to help me figure out whether any of the photos I have are of him.) And a description of skin-diving, and other general natter.<\/p>\r\n
Also her first mention of her penchant for getting guys to buy her dinner, which will come up again in later letters.<\/p>\r\n
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\r\n\r\n thursday\r\n [pencil: 7\/29\/65]\r\n\r\n'Allo!\r\n\r\nFear not, you are about the last letter to be writ on this\r\nnearly-illegible typewriter ribbon, as I'm on xx my way to\r\nthe bookstore to get a new one.\r\n\r\nI generally type on thinner paper, on which you really can't\r\nread anything unless it's very black.\r\n\r\nI was kind of upset by your letter--glad everything's okay.\r\nDo take a picture if you can; I'd dearly love to see Daddy\r\nwith a full beard. Bet it itches like hell. At least, now\r\nMom can make the ACID TEST--no, no, don't use acid. but\r\nyou'll find out, my dear, it really is like an egg without\r\nsalt. Hmm, wonder what it's like from the inside....say, is\r\nit straight, like your father's was, or curly? I can see you\r\nwith a little ol' tailored goatee and a prayer shawl. If you\r\nlet your hair grow you can be a prophet, maybe.\r\n\r\nWhat happens when the liquid goes out? where does it go? how\r\ndo you get it back?\r\n\r\nwhile we're on the topic of eyes, you have to pay for\r\ninsurance before you get it, you know. I'm sure it's\r\ndeductible--send check to me or make it out to Robert G.\r\nEnglefield.\r\n\r\nkeep on making new friends this quarter, which is really\r\nexciting. I'm going out with some frequency with an\r\nex-boyfriend of Carolyn's, name of Sandy, who took me skin\r\ndiving last week. It was quite exciting--I couldn't do too\r\nmuch in the way of depth, but used a mask and fins for the\r\nfirst time, and a snorkel (breathing tube) when I finally\r\ngot the hang of it. The mask is great; I could leave my\r\nlenses in and really see under water. all them fishes! when\r\nyou keep very still they nibble you. This was at a fairly\r\nlarge artificial lake about ten miles east of here, in a\r\nlittle town called Cedarville, seat of Cedarville College,\r\ntremendously religious place. Yellow Springs is a bit too\r\ncommie for them, and they never come here--all [handwritten\r\ninsertion: us] beatnik commie red [handwritten insertion:\r\ndirty] homosexuals.\r\n\r\n(my stationery this week is partly (like this one) extra\r\npages from Rabbit's (Richard) history thesis, which is very\r\nboring. he got an A for it......)\r\n\r\nCarolyn is working for the Poverty Program, Project\r\nHeadstart, nursery schools for underpriveleged (rural in\r\nthis case) kids. Her nursery school is south of Xenia in a\r\nvery pretty area. The teacher is a real bitch, but at least\r\nshe doesn't do anything worse than think her kids are\r\nstupid. Went with her on Monday morning and had a wonderful\r\ntime...can't wait to get back to teaching.\r\n\r\nOther new friends, and long-lost ones, keep on appearing. My\r\nroom is warm and sunny and pretty and quiet, so people keep\r\ndropping in on x us, leading to many contributions of donuts\r\nand bread and similar goodies. (we are on the way back to\r\ncampus from the bakery, which opens at midnight for students\r\nonly) Pete Kuner is supposed to stop by this weekend en\r\nroute to St. Louis, where he is going to school to be an\r\narchitect. Rather assuming someone will find room for him to\r\nstay, since I don't intend to make him very welcome unless\r\nhe should decide to take me out to dinner. (I'm not really\r\nmercenary, it's just that I like to be taken out to dinner\r\nand not paying for myself)...in which case my roommate's\r\nboyfriend will be persuaded to find space.....\r\n\r\nHave to go do some work, like reading a biography of da\r\nVinci, and such.\r\n\r\nLet me know how the eye is coming and all.\r\n\r\n love,\r\n\r\n [handwritten: Marcia]\r\n\r\n[handwritten: Sally says hello]\r\n<\/pre>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<\/p>\r\n
Postmark: Jul 31, 1965, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Handwritten: “Rec\u2019d this 8\/2\/65” and “pay contact lens insur” and a couple of other notes.<\/p>\r\n
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