Dot is loving her time in a real “hick” town of Hinsdale. It has 1,300 people and four stores.

She visited her cousin Waddy and his 19-year old bride at their sweet apartment across the street from his mother’s house. Even Waddy’s young bride sees his resemblance to Dart. Dot is amazed that the two men not only look alike, but both were in the Navy, assigned to destroyers and both want to be journalists.

In addition to his full-time job of helping to run his late father’s feed and grain store, Waddy also writes a daily column for the Pittsfield Republican. Today while he hammered out his column on the typewriter, Dot mowed his mother’s lawn. Her reward: three blisters.

She’s disppointed she won’t see her cousin Janet on this trip. She’s home from college for the summer, but is at a friend’s engagement party all weekend and won’t be home until after Dot returns to Greenwich. Dot’s sorry she’ll miss seeing the cousin, whom she likes very much.She tells Dart that this whole branch of the family is “unusually wonderful,” like yours.

A phone call home today revealed that Dot received four letters from Dart, which El has forwarded up to Hinsdale. She can’t wait to get them. “Those four letters will mean a great deal, Dart, as does everything you do. Thanks more than I can say for being such a wonderful guy. As a matter of fact, thanks for ‘being’.”