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1963 Feb 01, 2 p. w/env. Letter to Folks “I’m having an English woman for lunch tomorrow I asked to take her to a restaurant but she wanted to come here to the house. She quits work for the day at 2:00pm like the Nationals and I work until 5:30. She doesn’t realize what a chore it is for me to cook and serve guests in one hour. Her opinion of Americans is pretty low I guess. Well I may just strait her out a bit.”
1963 Feb 06, 3 p. w/env. Letter to Folks “Guess I’ll make my flight arrangements out of here tomorrow to leave about Feb 15./ I’ll report in Wash. and they will probably tell me they have nothing for me and so I’ll go over and take out retirement and head back for Manhattan. I wish I had less ambition;” is getting upset because the Liberian people aren’t blaming the Chief or Mission Director, they blame Mary for being sent out; enclosed newspaper clipping Newspaper Clipping “Retired Postal Worker Enrolls as Frosh at 70”
1963 Feb 11, 2 p. w/env. Letter to Folks “They are not using CARE milk but shipping in from Italy and very expensive brand half cream and buy cereal also from there in tiny pkgs when they could use their own in bulk at 1/5 the price. The woman in charge a very fine person has to use only what the VIP’s in the Ministry order for her. They refuse to come to see the situation. I think there is a Billie Sol Estes deal involved.” Discusses some of the problems AID is having in Libya. Newspaper Clipping “Central Airlines to Offer Service to Tulsa”
1963 Feb 14, 3 p. w/env. Letter to Brother Has noticed that AID has opened two of her letters; heard through the Public Health nurse and an English man that the Ministry of Social Welfare had requested the Ministry of Agriculture for Mary’s service in Libya for a tour of duty but the Ministry of Agriculture never bothered to discuss it with her; discusses social plans before she leaves Libya Palace Hotel Brochure
1963 Feb 23, 3 p. w/env. Letter to Folks Made it to Washington; had stayed in London for a short visit; mentions an earthquake in Barca Libya; is trying to save up for a new car; was surprised to hear an American on her plane had gone to Russia to have breakfast.