ABSTRACT
I am optimistic again after a few bad days occasioned by first being laid up a couple of days and then discovering that the information I had been getting for a week wasn't so hot. But I am going ahead full steam now with three excellent informants and of course feel good again. Also, I have high hopes that a capable female wi l l start work wi th Gertrude in the morning: the lack of a good informant has gotten her down considerably. You know in a place like this (contrasted wi th a litt le village) one has to have a connection to get anything; one soon runs out of possibilities of "soaking" things up. . . .
