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Description of his friend Willie, a fellow patient

Change of hospital again, mentions friends and fellow patients Epstein and Willie

"I am still boarding at the sam address. Margaret [Dawson] and Katy {Kathleen Cain] intimated that there were better places nearer home, but as yet I haven't been able to try them."

mentions arrival of letters from relatives

Sent to Charles Waters in Hamlet, New York. Charles Waters was an early-day Hennessey pioneer who ran cattle in the Cherokee Strip with CLH's grandfather, Lyman Hobbs. CLH writes to Waters: "I am having a rest at present, though it has been longer…

"never had anything but a stiff back. Am getting that worked on now."
[Note: CLH's back was injured in his plane crash of 12/21/1944.]

"I haven't been doing much besides sleeping and playing solitare"; Laurence Hon sent a picture of Cordry hat collection, in Hennessey, Oklahoma. Young men and women in Hennessey hung their hats in Cordry's store before they left for war, and picked…

Hobbs is ambulatory; he tales a walk. Playing cribbage. Mentions Epstein, an American patient from New York.

"I didn't have much to occupy my mind for awhile, and I was getting restless"; playing dominoes and cribbage.

Reports that he hasn't gone to church; is visited by Catholic chaplain.