Paris

August 29, 1945

Dear Mom,

Yesterday I had a nice surprise. Major Hague, my immediate boss, was in town on business and brought in some mail for me. It was the two letters you wrote from Wisconsin and your letter of 12 Aug. There were also a couple of Time magazines. I took them all home to read after supper and as a result didn't go anywhere.

This morning it rained for the first time since I've been here. I slept late and then went to the Louvre Museum. They were showing their principal paintings and it was like going back into my history of art class for I have seen most of them in reproduction and they were very familiar. There may have been some system to the display but it struck me as being rather odd and indiscriminate in its hanging. There appeared to be no attempt to segregate the paintings into schools, or periods as is habitual. They were all in a jumble which may have flattered the more recent works but disturbed me.

Bob