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XIV Saturday 7 Oct. 9 pm (Back in Henry and Tom's room) 10:25 am Sunday - Just this minute received your letter of Wed. night, mailed the next day (postmarked 1 pm!) Darling- Add to your list of books I’d like (and which of course I don't expect you to rush out and by all of a sudden, especially until I am able to send you some money)- “The Democratic Spirit,” ed. By Bernard Smith One I wish I’d brought and may write to [?] for later on is “Anna Karenina”…if that little book on India by Katherine Mitchel is amongst the books coming by freight, will you send it to me when it arrives (and if you open the box?) I’d like you to subscribe to the regular edition of the New Yorker and mail it to me 2nd class when you’re through with it. Also order the Sunday PM and the Sunday NY Times, sending me all of the former and just the book section of the latter. Let me know whether Amerania is reaching our new address; that I’d like to have sent 1st class if it's not too expensive - i.e., more than about 15¢. Use your own judgment; I can wait for it. Keep Time as it comes to us in Carmel (I hope you've changed the address if it wasn't sent to me there in the first place, because that's the one thing I would like to have as nearly up to the minute as possible, and I can subscribe to the pony edition here). Lastly, I shall in a few weeks order the IPR magazine to be sent to Carmel for you to read and relay. Is all that too big an order? - plus the incidental clippings I hope you'll continue sending. Sunday morning Another delicious haul - 7 letters this time! [Have received all thru #14, and a birthday card - 2 number fourteens, one the special] I hurriedly [pg 2] opened the special delivery - I'm so sorry my letter disturbed you, darling - I knew it would, of course, and I'm glad you took it so well. Don't worry about my working too hard - I'm nice and rested now after our little excursion and expect to stay that way. Henry and I had our third long talk last night - I think it does him about as much good as it does me, for whom it is helping to clarify many things to root out the unimportant ones. Our conversation, personal at first and of course continuing to be so in a degree, grows more objective and stimulates self-confidence. I don't mean so much self-confidence in my current work, which I am not concerned about, but in my ability to take the war and its futilities, including this separation, without being hurt by it. Again I’d like to say more but have all your other letters to read and must soon be about my business. Your letter written Sunday (after the disturbed one of Saturday) was a great relief, darling. Mail is still coming in bunches but should stop doing that soon. How long does mine take to reach you? Today - Sunday- I received amongst the others one written Wed. noon the 4th, postmarked the 4th at 7 pm, and here yesterday the 7th at the office. Thank you for the snapshots, honey - I love getting them. The ones I want the very most in enlarged size are the three of you sitting on the little stone wall opposite the Joneses' entrance - one in particular was admired by Henry and others, the same one I picked out. Will you send them to me? You ask whether there will be any long gaps anytime in my mail to you. I don't think so, though of course it's impossible to foresee at present. (Still reading hastily and stopping to comment) - wonderful, wonderful! Just those sentences ago I almost asked you to look for a snapshot folder for one - then decided I [?] ask for anymore things now! [?] something [?] very much. Bless you, darling - I love you so much. I'll answer your letters soon Warren
