Folder 13

1958 Apr 07, 3 p. no env. Letter to Christine Needs materials from Christine so she can get the women to wear a bonnet instead of a rag over their head for shade while working outside; enclosing a paper Mary got a kick out of since her name is in the headlines; is quite pleased about a Turkish man who is traveling with her
Letter from M.C. Wiggins to Mary’s Folks w/clipping and env. Brief translations of newspaper clipping; Clipping about Minister of Agriculture and Mary are on inspection trip, Mary judged rice pudding and preserved fruit juices, and Mary commended for her work with the ministry of Agriculture and the Home Economics Program; “I have material for a cocktail dress for Mary that will make her look like a brides maid”; Campus updates and snow stories
1958 Apr 16, 7 p. no env. Letter to Folks Received flower seeds; bought a few items for the Turkish man she traveled with but once she did he would then start wanting more and more items, “I think I’ll just let him keep wanting”; law that says on Apr 16 all heat in buildings are to be turned off; shares a couple of interesting stories on the Turkish language and Americans; frustrated with counterpart who has had Mary’s radio scripts for 3 months with the promise she’d translate them “Labor is so foreign to their philosophy”; working with new landlady who “seems like about the most sensible competent Turkish woman I’ve met”
1958 Apr 22, 7 p. w/env. Letter to Folks Home from a trip to the Holy Land’; details her trip a bit; got locked out of her home; found a sewer rat in the oven and has fleas in the house; thinks she is being cheated as nowhere does she receive proper change; “I can’t see what some of those countries have beside ruins, stones, hills and a tourist trade.”
1958 Apr 22, 5 p. w/env. Letter to Folks “These Turks eat butter like cheese when they can get it”; discusses her home and the maid a bit; is gaining too much weight; got a new man in Extension; had three Turks over for dinner; surprised her as they were small eaters