Dearest Betty

Letter # 51
February 5, 1951
Pohang

Hello, Sugar,

Well what do you know, Holiday routine today and a more beautiful day you couldn’t ask for. Last night Clum cooked a very large Cod fish, Tate made potato salad, and I made hot sauce that has Tabasco but the natives grow a very hot small red pepper and I grind up it up real fine. So I procured some and put it in a qt. Bottle, added vinegar, salt, sugar,and horseradish. Something kind of hot!

Today I devised a bed lamp that I want patented. It is a “dilly” for people who read in bed. Our tent is dark what with all flaps down due to cold, so I put a lamp on the head of my bed but keep forgetting to turn it off during the day when I sit or lay upon my back so I put a small switch of the pressure type at just the right height under the center leg. When my weight is put on it---Presto a light. When I get up Presto—light out. Of course I have another switch for when I retire.

Ah! Sugar see if you can “air mail” me some stationary. It is critical just now. Also drop a pipe stem cleaner in a letter from time to time.

Your Bill