Dear Sally, I See Your Letters to Carter, Which Keep Me Fairly Well Apprised of Things

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TO SALLY G. CHAMBERLIN1 March 31, 1947

Moscow, USSR

Dear Sally, I see your letters to Carter, which keep me fairly well apprised of things. However, I wish you would send me a note about once a week to keep me advised as to what is happening in your office--the amount of mail being received.

I wish you would see if you cannot persuade Mrs. Marshall to send you portions of the fan mail she is receiving now. I do not like the idea of her attempting to answer it all from Pinehurst.2

In a note to her today I asked her to get in touch with you to see about having Sergeant George drive down to Leesburg and look over the house.3 If the weather is warm, I wish you would go with him; but do not go if it is at all cool, because that house is a pneumonia trap unless the furnace is going.

Let me know whether or not the tree man attempted to get the honeysuckle out of the wooded lot. I know he was supposed to have removed it along the lower road, but I do not know whether his bill included clearing the wooded lot next to the main road.

Please keep me advised as to my bank balance. Also keep a careful record of the several amounts that are being paid in to me so that I will have no trouble in getting the right data for my income tax. It apparently will be a highly involved affair next year. Incidentally, I see that the check for $2500 was bona fide--that was the correct amount. And also incidentally, now since my retirement, they make deductions from my pay at the source. This may have some effect on my quarterly payments unless the $2500 balances off.

We keep very busy here and I presume will be much busier before the finish. I still have no idea of when I will start back.

I hope your mother is well and that you are free of colds.

With affectionate regards, Faithfully yours,

G. C. Marshall

GCMRL/G. C. Marshall Papers (Pentagon Office, General)

1. Chamberlin had been Marshall's social and personal secretary since 1941. After his retirement from duties as US Army chief of staff, she ran the office in the Pentagon that, as a General of the Army, he was permitted to maintain.

2. Mrs. Marshall’s memoir, Together, published in the autumn of 1946, was the cause of this “fan mail.”

3. Sergeant C. J. George had been an aide to Marshall since January 21. Previously he had been in the Pentagon motor pool.