15 Nov 1936
John Griffin to Mother / Washington D.C.
I guess that there is not much news I can tell you with Mae writing as often as she does, then two it makes just one more letter to answer. However, I don't want you to think that I have forgotten you and so here is just a line.
Your blizzard outside when you wrote that last letter sounds a little premature. We have been having nice sunny weather back here most of the time. Mae thinks that it is pretty cold, though I notice that she has only wore her fur coat twice since it came. The cold is more penetrating as is the heat, but you get used to it. We've had some great football weather, and are hoping that it will hold out for a week or so longer. We are going over to Philadelphia to see the Army and Navy play this year. They expect 100,000 people and I guess it will be some spectacle.
Of course we were very pleased with the outcome of the election, and what pleased me more than anything else, is the fact that the Literary Digest Poll was shown up so bad. I knew all the time that it was packed, and that they were just trying to throw public opinion against Roosevelt. Thins however, have been awfully tight back here since the election. There is talk of big layoffs and some of them have started already. I hope that I will be able to keep on until after school is finished next June. What to do after that is a big problem right now and it worries me quite a bit. If I could make some connection here I would rather do that as I like it here a lot and would like to live here. I do not want to go on working for the government at a nominal salary like I am now, though. If I can't get some kind of a break before Spring, I might pull up stakes and go somewhere, I don't know where, though.
School is a big drag this year. I can't seem to get interested in it. I guess taking the bar at the end of the third year was a bad thing in that respect. Maybe as exam time nears I'll perk up a bit and do a little studying. I'd better be careful or I'll miss graduating in June.
Mae is still working at the Media Research bureau. She makes enough to get along on and is going to school. She was called on another job one day but was not home and so missed it. She is trying all the time to get something better and I am sure that she will before very long.
We are planning on a turkey with the Israelsons for thanksgiving. She (Mrs. Izzy) will probably have eight or ten there this year. She always invites in some of our friends, the Rosses or the Smiths, and we buy the duck and she fixes it. Xmas is only a month away, and my how the time flies. I'll have to be getting something off to Ben or he won't get it.
Dot's got dinner ready and so I'll have to sign off. Write often - John.
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