Dot says that while she has been inconsistent with her letters, she keeps Dart in her thoughts all the time.

Last night the family had a birthday celebration for Arthur. Although Dot thoroughly enjoyed the dinner, she began to feel sick as soon as it was over. After retiring to her bedroom, she “returned the dinner I had so enjoyed a short time before.” She didn’t feel 100% this morning, but now she’s nearly back to normal. “As normal as I ever was,” she quips.

The Chamberlains had a weekend visit from Dot’s cousin – also named Dot – and her family. The other Dot married a Belgian and they have three children, ages 6 to 12. Her husband has accepted a job in the Belgian Congo and the entire family will be moving there in March. The children are scared, even though they spent their early years living in Belgium and speaking French. Now they have forgotten most of their first language and are nervous about living in a foreign place and attending a school where only French is spoken.

Dot (our own) tells Dart that she had begun taking Spanish in night school and enjoyed it a lot. Unfortunately, there were not enough students signed up, so they discontinued the class.

She got a nice letter from Dart’s mother today, thanking her for the subscription to Life magazine that she gave his parents for Christmas. She’s sorry to hear that Dart’s father has to spend a few weeks in bed for some undisclosed ailment, but she’s happy to know that he’ll be good as new in four weeks and plans to attend Dot’s graduation. She’s getting very excited about the big event.

She’s enclosing the last of the Chamberlain family Christmas snapshots for his viewing pleasure. She tells Dart that her days seem empty without his letters. She surely hopes they start arriving again soon because they seem to bring him much closer to her.

“Be seein’ you in my dreams, Dearest,” she says as she hurries off to bed.