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Pretty nurses "build up my blood pressure."

"feeling good and getting better all the time"

Describes boredom of hospital; reading Zane Gray and wishing for "The Cattleman," a magazine published by the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.

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

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

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

"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…

"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.]

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…

mentions arrival of letters from relatives