Mr. Jenner. Now, you had another sheaf of papers when you produced Exhibit 277—what are those papers?
Mrs. Paine. I have a few scratch notes which tell what correspondence there was between November 22 and the first date of this exhibit, which was December 27.
Mr. Jenner. Refreshing your recollection from those notes, tell me if you can what correspondence there was prior to the first letter, which appears as December 27, in Ruth Paine Exhibit 277?
Mrs. Paine. There were two or three short notes written by myself to Marina Oswald and sent to her along with a small stack of letters and checks which had come addressed to me, but really for her. I sent these via the Irving Police to Secret Service. I have no copies of these, but I have seen one in translation, I believe it to have been the second one that I wrote, among the Commission papers that were shown to me in Washington.
There was a note and Christmas card sent to me by Marina and postmarked December 21. Then, there was also a note and Christmas card sent by me to Marina on the same date, December 21.
Mr. Jenner. Did you send that before or after you received her card?
Mrs. Paine. They crossed.
Mr. Jenner. Are you able to translate now for the record the wording of the Christmas card or message received from Marina by you?
Mrs. Paine. I would rather have a few minutes with it before doing it for the record. I have not done it in advance because time didn't serve. I do want here to try to describe what I recall as the content of my note, which I have no copy of that.
Mr. Jenner. Notes that are in your hand, are they in Russian?