519 W. 162 St., NYC 32
October 31, 1946

Dear Josh,

This will be just a short note, because it is
very late. Your letter came as a great surprise to
us. As it happens, the apartment would be extremely
useful to us. The situation is this. I have a cousin,
name of Mary Ann Swarts, who started inat a school of
Dietetics in. NYC this fall. The hotel room they gave
her was completely inadecuate for studying purposes,
because there were 3 in the one room, As a result, she
moved in with us a couple of months ago. We only huve
2 rooms of our own, and consecuently we have been very
crowded for the last 2 months, and Mary Ann has been
living out of a wardrobe trunk.

Mary Ann has another friend, and they would both
be able and willing to take care of your apartment on
the terms you gave us, and would be ready to move in
any time. I known that you can trust both of them to
take good care of the place, and you will not have to
worry about their moving out when you want them to,
because they will be finishing their course andleaving
New York about that time, anyway.

We are very grateful to you for giving us the chance
at your apartment, and it would be a great help to us
as well as to Mary Ann, by relieving the congestion in
our apartment here, if they could have it.

We ame glad to hear everything is going s» well with
you. I don't think we ever wrote fo thank you for the
repring you sent us, but please accept our belated thanks
now, I dont know whether you know or not that we age now
sharing our apartment with Dot and Paul Marks, but anyway,
they send you gux their best regards, and we add our own:
best wishes. We hope to hear from you soon on the matter
of the apartment, and also on howthings are going with you
in general,

Yours,

gimDot Speers