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85 Wednesday 7:30 P.M. Dec. 6 My Dearly Beloved: Have just finished supper and washing the hair - sure will be glad to have you take over that, and numerous other jobs when you get back. Wendy is sound asleep - she's been just perfect today - ate all her meals with great gusto, napped etc. etc. This morning I received #57 about Jean. I read it once at the P.O. and again while Wendy and I were sunning ourselves in the park. You are right in every thing you say. I do think it would be good for Jean and probably for me too. However Jean mustn't be pushed - every once in awhile when I write to her will mention her coming out here. I don't think anything you did for Jean harmed her at all - but you did it in a man's way and Jean needed steering from a woman, and one with great understanding. You gave her something at a time when she needed it, and you must never blame yourself at all. Jean is just beginning to grow up now, in the funny adolescent way girls do. She just stayed in the tomboy stage a long time. Jean I think will find herself now that she has the desire, but it [pg 2] will take time. I think too, Jean will confide in me when she is ready - either in letters or if I'm around in person. Jean isn't in any sense at all a problem - but she is an individualist of her own making - for I'm convinced physically and psychologically Jean is essentially very feminine. I don't pretend to know an awful lot - because I just haven't been around enough - but I have seen girls who resemble Jean; beside them she is just like a lost little girl. I won't get any more involved - but I think by now you probably understand what I'm trying to say - and using many too many words! Paula got herself mixed up with the man down at the stable when her dog ran away, and last night he came visiting after he’d been drinking, and of course like a dummy she let him in. After he left, she came over here about 9:00, and wanted to know what to do! I [laced?] into her because I really was mad, and she was fool enough to tell him I was next door alone with a baby. Sometimes I think she just doesn't have any sense - can't figure her out at all. I hope to hell he doesn't bother me any- Bev N. stopped by about noon, so I asked her to stay to lunch. When Wendy woke up I dressed her all up - even to white felt shoes and blue hair ribbon. [pg 3] Left a package of my clothes and hers at the Red Cross and chatted for a few minutes with Muriel Simpson. Then I ordered the flowers for Mother and wrote out a card from the three of us. Mel-o-dee Florist doesn't have a license to wine, tho they hope to have one by Xmas. From there we went on to visit two of Bev's friends - one who was rather nondescript, and the other whom I liked very much Cookie Wright. Nurse - trained at St. Luke's in N.Y. and knew Dr. Wilke. She has 2 little girls one 4 ½ and Martha aged 19 months and another unknown quantity. I was particularly interested in Martha, because she is as old as Wendy will be when you get home. She is a charming baby with hair just beginning to curl. She was awfully much interested in Wendy - and drawing with a crayon and piece of paper. She doesn't talk much, but can answer to what does the doggie (kitty and choo choo) say? I put Wendy in the high chair and she loved it - banging on the tray with a spoon. So - I guess it's time to get her chair - will see about ordering it tomorrow or the next day. Bev drove me back to Monterey to look at some, but I didn't see anything I thought we all might like. When we got home Helen Wilson phoned and asked me to come see her tomorrow afternoon. She was the girl I liked so much [pg 4] at Marjorie Wurzman’s tea. She is quite mannish looking in a feminine way - with wonderful blue eyes. She has a three year old daughter Nicky, and is living here in Carmel with her mother. Her husband was in Australia 10 mo. is now in Honolulu (phoned last night) and will be home in February. She has a great deal to her - and I know I shall enjoy gabbing about this and that. She has been going to Dr. Sissou's classes - and has invited two other durating wives for me to meet - one is about to have a baby. Oh almost forgot - wore my tan cotton suit with the white cotton appliqué - and it fit perfectly. Here I am with the best figure ever, and you not here to see it! Come next September, I'm going to luxuriate getting ready for you - new clothes, lingerie, perfume, hair do etc. I already have two brand new slips one light blue and the other pale yellow - and I'm going to watch out for just the right negligee at The Silver Thimble. And if I can find them, you shall have your silk pyjamas, or a reasonably accurate facsimile. Wendy seems to grow each time I look at her - and she is so satisfactory. Unless I put her in her sleeping harness, she is [pg 5] able to turn from tummy to back and kick all her covers off. That done she turns til she is crosswise - why I don't know. This morning she was so cold when I picked her up that I took her into bed with me for a few minutes while the house was getting warm. She was so cunning - cuddled up beside me with many dja, djas and ha ha ha's. She will be such fun to romp with when we have a lazy Sunday morning to give to her. You will love her giggle and merry laugh. Sometimes she is so irresistible that I stop whatever I'm doing and get down on the floor to play with her and she loves it. Hope I have more mail from you tomorrow - usually I get two or three at a time and today there was just one letter. Goodnight my darling I too love you more than anything in the world- Bobby
