Lea [Leah Hirsig] has changed considerably. She is noticeably freer of the personal. I assume this is a permanent change, though her illness (Dr. Maggo says: “Tuberculosis” and shakes his head) may explain a part of it; she lacks her former ‘pep’.

I have now finished two coats, one for Howie [Howard Shumway] and one for Hansi, made out of two coats of the Beast dug out of a trunk.