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1957 Apr [04 /05?], 5 p. w/env. includes photograph Letter to Rose, 2 p. Shoe problems; brief gossip about her department in foreign affairs; packers arriving Letter to Folks, 3 p. Preparations before trip to Ankara, Turkey; Address information; leaving for D.C.
1957 Apr 08, 4 p. w/env. Letter to Folks Letter from Washington D.C.; discusses travel plans; story about a German helping her out with rating in order to fly to Rome
1957 Apr 11, 12 p. w/env. Letter to Folks Turkey plans; “In 5 years they are expecting to have 500 home agents trained on the job. I’m responsible for some recruiting, some teaching, but mostly for organization, supervision administration, and all in-service training”; Cute story about kids at church; dinner plans; “heckled by supposedly communists”
1957 Apr 13, Postcard To Folks Post card of Toll house tavern where she had a party
1957 Apr 18, Postcard To Folks Flight delayed in Washington due to fog and planning on staying in Rome longer due to a holiday in Turkey
1957 Apr 25, 4 p. no env. Letter to Folks In Rome for a few days; No bath in hotel; Is in Turkey now; describes co-workers (superior, two counter parts, Am. man partner); describes postal exchange (PX), office, and area around her
1957 Apr 29, 4 p. w/env. Letter to Folks Describes living conditions; food not bad; laundry situation isn’t to be desired as servants wash too hard; tries to get folks to fly out to Turkey and visit her Letter to Folks Last letter from Washington D.C.; had lunch with Catherine Marshal who is the author of “A Man Called Peter”; went to a meeting where the department of agriculture sent a man to oversee Home Economic Research; when they said they were going to the turkey pens, Mary replies “I’m a home economist and not a poultry specialist and I’ll either see the home ec. research or take the next bus back to town”; had dinner with some U.S.I.A. folks she knew in Pakistan; went to a conference with a fellow home economist on the Wash. I.C.A. staff, “Evidently she is becoming more impressed with me because she told me what the fly in the ointment is in Turkey, It’s not the Colonel. She also asked me to organize for next Spring a Home Ec. Extension Workshop for home economists in Asia”