Luebo 4/10/22
Dear Mother and Daddy:
As I haven't had a typewriter handy tonight I'll have to manage with a pen this time.
We had another mail today, and I notice it came through in pretty good time, as your letters dated early in Feb. came today, making a few days more than two months.
The Allens and Longeneckers (and two children) ·arrived in Luebo this past Tuesday. They reached us a bit earlier than we had anticipated, but of course we were anxious for them to be here. The Longenecker family are planning to leave for Mutoto tomorrow; from there they go to Bibanga where they are to work. The Allens remain here at Luebo, at least for the present. Then we have news that Mr. and Mrs McKinnon are on the way out here and will no doubt be here sometime next month. Mrs. McKinnon left here about three years ago with cancer of the stomach. After several exceedingly severe operations, including a radium treatment, she seems to have gotten rid of the cancer.
We had five visitors from the Forminiere--an American Mining Co., at least made up of a good number of Americans--to stay with us from Sat. afternoon till this morning. We enjoyed seeing them, two ladies in the crowd, although we were put to it to find room for them along with our recent arrivals on the station.
No doubt you understand now how we feel about your sending excerpts from our letters, as you used to do, and that we have not the slightest objection to this. We have been writing a few more letters lately, and also receiving more; the second perhaps in a measure due to the former.
We had already written you, but as it has been several days since we mailed your last letter, we wanted to include a few lines in the mail that leaves early in the morning.
As you are drinking so much good milk every day you ought to be gaining in weight. We trust this letter finds you still improving.
With love to all,
B. M.
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