Monrovia, Liberia

Feb. 5, 1934

Dear Marge:

I have been here four days now and it is very nice. It is the summer season here but I am very comfortable. It is really not as hot as our warmest days at home. I do not know what the rainy season is like but I am told that it is much cooler.

There are not so many white people in town, perhaps forty or fifty, and they are a cosmopolitan group - people from England, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Holland - people who have been all over the world. They seem to be very nice.

There is a girl here who was a librarian in Cleveland and whose home is in Galion, Ohio. Her husband is a Hungarian Doctor whom she met in the States while he was studying at Reserve [Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio]. She is planning to come home in June.

I like the house and the work as I told you, but my official title is "cashier" instead of "Teller".

My house is one of the best in town and I have it all alone.

At the Bank we have five or six clerks, three messengers and Mr. Corwin, the manager. The official hours are from nine to twelve but we open up from two to four and when the doors are closed we are finished because there is not much business. If we open ten or twenty minutes late that is all right because if you cannot get your business done today, tomorrow is just as good unless, of course, it is mail boat day.