Transcript of Letter from Katherine Fite to Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Fite

Please send me the package, stockings, roll for hair, etc. PIT 20 Nuremberg, Nov. 11 Dearest Mother and Daddy, I neglected you last week, but I warned you that I would. We have been working night and day steadily - with yesterday a pre- *iminary deadline so that we are a bit relaxed today. All on the theory that we go to trial the 20th which I still doubt. The bottleneck is mimeographing, photostating and translation, Certainly we work under physical handicaps. You should see five of us in one room, including 2 stenographers, trying to uti- lize the light of one desklamp and a feeble bulb with no shade way in the mid- dle of the room on a high ceiling. Yesterday with our brief on the Cabinet - such as it is - in the hands of the nineographer, I cut out early and indulged in the luxury of having my hair washed. I don't think my hair has been really clean since I left home - they don't rinse it well - and I don't like my Selfridge permanent - it curla in the wrong places - and now my hair is growing long. Altogether hair is a problem. The paragraph at the beginning is to make possible a Xmas package. I understand just a request for "a package" will satisfy the postman at any time but I threw in stockings and roll" just for precaution. By roll, I mean those "rats" you can buy at the locent store. Some have an elastic all around the head I don't like the elastic - but if it is all you can get it is better than nothing. With my hair so long, I need something to tuck it around. tome nylons would be wonderful , and some cottons - the nubby, not the striped kind. I believe I can get service weight rayons here. This week, with a lit- tle leisure I am going to get out to the Quartermaster and see what I can get in the way of winter underwear. It's pretty cold here today, cold and gray. I started out to tell you of the Justice's cocktail party for Senator Pepper yesterday - very pleasant Then on in a smaller party to dinner at the hotel, and our night clob, which is the center of lour local life. Sat next to the Senator who regaled the party with tales of his visit to King Ibn Saud and hts tent city. The biggest event of the King's life was his visit on Roosevelt's battleship. (They had to put all the women off the ship, including Anna) The Senator looks like Adolf Berle. He does not like Mr. Hackworth. Lots of people don't. Tonight another VIP dinner party at the Justice's for the S. APCHIVES "MATIONAL RECORDS AND ADMIN.' Es