Madison - Chicago Dec 30 - 1926 With Dunbar started at 9:05 for Chicago. when we arrived at 1:30 P.M. A bright warm winter day. Had a good talk trip there. Bought a ticket and berth to Little Rock, Arkansas (29 3/4) and received my baggage. We then spent 2 hours at the Field Museum, and at 6:15 P.M. Jane left on the Chicago and Alton for St. Louis and Little Rock; at St. Louis we from Missouri Pacific Line. December 31 - 1926 Enroute to Little Rock. A little snow and ice and much mud down to Shawport, Ark. A clouded cool day, and the swamps every- where reflect with water. At Poplar Bluff we leave the Ozarkian - Beebe mountain chain and turn southward and go on the flat Mississippi bottoms with their hard woods and small groves from trees. Our train in two hours later. Put up at La. Fayette Hotel, a new one.