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287 P.S. - the 2nd stamp was a mistake - meant it for M and F's letter (with a Churo Chronicle in it)! Wednesday evening 8 Aug. Sweetie - This isn't meant to count as a letter, tho I'm not sure I'll get to one tonight since I'm anxious to write M and F (for the first time in two months.) The enclosed four dollars ($3 money order and a $1 bill) are for a book or books, in the following order of preference - whatever you can buy in Carmel, if any, without having to wait to order - 1) Works of Chaucer. Cambridge Students’ Edition, ed. by Fred K Robinson. Ginn and Co., $3.75 2) The Complete Works of Shakespeare edited by George Lyman Kittredge. Ginn and Co. (don't know price) (5) Lieder, Lovett and Rost (an anthology of British literature for college use. If you have a copy of this and can find it, will you send it in addition to some other of these books that you buy?) [pg 2] 3) The Works of Christopher Marlowe ed. by C.[?] Tucker Brooke Oxford Univ. Press - about $2.50 And Bacon's Essays Oxford World's Classics #24 - about $1 4) History of English Literature, by Legouis and Cazannian Henry Holt and Co. (don’t know price) Apart from whichever of these you get me now, I’d like nothing better for my birthday, darling, than one of the above books. If they’re not available locally you can order from Allen L. Weatherby Hollywood Bookstore 6770 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, Calif. (Weatherby is a Harvard classmate of Jim Boyle’s) [pg 3] While I'm on the subject of my birthday, the only other things I can think of that I’d like are a) a shaving brush like the one you gave me last year and which I enjoyed using till I lost it at the B.O.Q. in Pearl Harbor b) a Yardley's shaving bowl, and perhaps some Gentlemen's After-Shaving Lotion (just as fragrant as your woman's notion of masculinity can stand) - a sense of luxury of the kind that good smells always gives me will be very welcome) c) a pipe. I've only one that I like - the one you gave me in Boulder. Not all of these things, darling - just any one of them. Keep me guessing. I think I should like a copy of Bacon's Essays now: that is, as soon as you can order it. If it's apart from [?] or books bought with the enclosed, [pg 4] I'll send you the price of it separately. Please keep the above list of books on hand for me - they are Jim Boyles and Jim Bairds recommendations as to editions of the authors in question. I think I am coming around at long last to a desire to read for pure pleasure and not for where it may get me in any given field. I've often postponed reading the things I most enjoy out of a restless regard for the power that information brings, forgetting the immensely greater power of a freed imagination. You don't have to share my tastes in these things now - though I think perhaps you will later on. Thank you, sweetie Warren Wisdom hath builded her house, She hath hewn out her Seven pillars…
