[Blair House, Washington, D.C.] July 12, 1950
Dear Bess:
The day was much brighter when your good note came with the enclosure. It certainly must be cold if you had to light the furnace. What happened about a new one?
Mary gets here today for her Star meeting. I suppose she'll stay over Sunday. Wish Margie were coming home over the week end. I am going down the River on Saturday unless the country is really gone to hell by that time. I've been working almost night and day since June 29th. Have conferences nearly every day and evening. In addition to that I've been sitting in the dentists chair for an hour every afternoon since Monday. Have at last found a good dentist. He's remaking my lastest [sic] upper bridge that Dr. Forsyth just put in and which came out twice of its own accord. This new man is named Major Moulton and I think he knows what he's about. He is going to fix my old lower bridge and make me a new crown on the left side too.
It looks bad in the Far East. We can't get there in force for 3 weeks and by then it may be too late. Or there'll be an explosion someplace else. Hope we can contain it and not have to order our terrible weapon turned loose.
What with all that I thought a short change of scenery might keep me from being jittery. I lost my temper yesterday and gave old Sen. Wiley a tongue lasting at a conference I was having with eight Senators. He had it coming but it probably would have been better not to do it.
Hope your mother continues to improve.
Lots of love Harry