A Letter Written on Mar 16, 1958

Sunday

Dear Pat,

I am sending you checks resulting from your last budget card. [no longer with the letter] They ought to see you through at least until after Spring Vacation. Noticed your expenses included "piazza". Do they charge you to sit on it or what?

Did you get the "role" of Ansco? You must have referred to the Super Anscochrome now available in Tungsten Type. IT8's rated at 100 ASA, not 400 but Bob Schwalberg writes that he had excellent results at 200 ASA or even higher. The trouble is that it must be pushed in the development if you expose at faster than the 100 ASA rating. Unless you develop your own, you may have trouble getting it developed to your specifications at a commercial color lab. I'm guessing that you haven't been able to use it yet for I'll be surprised to hear that you can obtain itin [sic] your area. In any case you should get much better results than with Ektachrome Type F when you use stage lighting. Ektachrome is balanced at 3800K against 3200K for Super Anscochrome. Schwalberg's experiments with the new film ranged from light sources as warm as 1800 K and as clod [sic] as 4200 K. He says, as long as the exposure wasn't too far from the AsA 100 rating, the colors came out O.K. Naturally they appear somewhat warmish (reddish or yellowish) when the color source is on the warmer side and vice versa but the finished transparency appeared more believable than ones on which color correcting filters were used.

Mother and I think that, when you go down to Yale, you should use the opportunity to investigate their graduate school set-up more carefully. Perhaps something can be worked out so that you can take your graduate work there. It should prove more rewarding both in the training you will receive and the prestige of a degree from there. Learn all you can so we can discuss it when you come home.

Love,
Dad

P.S. We had to take some of your food items out of the laundry case as it weighed in at 23 pounds and we can't mail it here unless 20 or under. The remainder will come in a box that we'll send Monday or Tues.

Love
Mother