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Dear Anne,

or My Darling,

or Hi Annie,

or Sweetheart,

All of which mean I LOVE YOU. Gee but it's fun to hear from you each day. It's now 2:15 p.m. and I should be studying, but I'll say hi to you first, then study till 4 (coffee, or rather TEA!, and then chorus until dinner). Then I'll say hi again after dinner.

It snowed lightly during the night and this morning. Then after lunch it started coming down in big flakes (rather than in a kind of fine mist). I can look out my window now and see them floating up and down in the breeze (I bet that's hard to imagine sitting back at Stanford where it only rains). Everything is transfigured in the fresh snow, even more beautiful than yesterday. The tree branches are completely covered with snow (no time for the wind to blow it off) and look sort of ghostly glittery, making an elaborate pattern of lace. And even the walks are white now and of course the lawns and bushes are covered and crowed. It's about 1 1/2 inches deep now and may get a little deeper. I can just barely see down into the valley, and it is so beautiful. The fields are solid white, broken occasionally by rows of stakes or telephone poles, and bounded by the dark shadows of the villages. The sky is almost white and so the whole picture is sort of a sharp black and white, with the distant blacks looking faint and gray, and the nearer blacks (as on the trees outside, their trunks and large limbs) much sharper. I hope you can visualize it, and when it stops snowing I'll surely take some pictures to share with you. It's so nice to see the snow and yet to be warm and comfortable here inside (protected by the double glass window) looking often at your picture.

Classes this a.m. were as usual, very pleasant. We have our big classes in the library (I'll draw a diagram of the building on the back) and German in the Ratskeller. After lunch today Dr. Nanner gave directions to use the big record player - Hi Fi (records and tapes) in the library. It's a beautiful machine - stereophonic too. And one of the few stereo records they have is the Brahms Violin Concerto with