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24- Tuesday [1o/1o] 12:45 My dearest darling:- Here Wendy and I sit at our desk writing to you. We've just come back from town - to the P.O. [?] and purchase of an anniversary present for you which we'll mail tomorrow. I see ‘we’, because all your packages are trundled to the P.O. alongside Wendy in the buggy. I mailed a letter to you and package special delivery. There was no mail from you, but letters from Muz, home, Jean M., Betty L., and J.H. [J?] and Betty, both had something to say about you which pleased me. Jean: “Just heard from H. today that Warren had arrived in Hawaii. Henry was so very elated at seeing Warren that he took up 2 letters talking about how nice it was to see him! He likes Warren very much, as I think you know. They were both, I gather, in H's room, writing letters to their respective wives and doing a good deal of talking.” It was so good to hear from Jean - gather that she had not yet received my letter. Betty- “Let's keep our fingers crossed that we will all i.e. Warren, Wendy, you, Sol, and I have a grand reunion soon. Sol says that Warren has arrived there, and that he is looking fine.” It's so good to get letters from people we both know. This afternoon Bev and I are going shopping and then she is coming back up for dinner. Gil has to stay at the field tonight. Missed you terribly last night - more so, because something upset my tummy, and I still feel queasy today. To make matters worse, Wendy woke up at five and rattled around in her crib so that I had to fix her bottle. She is so cunning that I don't mind. One of the high spots in my day is looking over to the crib in the morning and seeing those big eyes looking thru the crib sides at me. Her eyes are changing decidedly now, and are going to be like ours - She is wiggling so - guess she wants to write a note. DEAR DADDY: DO YOU GET ALL THE KISSES I SEND YOU? LOVE WENDY [pg 3] 5:30 Wendy's just had her orange juice, dinner is started and Bev and [R?] are here. Bev started to talk to me, and said a good list. How she is jealous of Gil's first wife - and how Gil still writes to the husband of his first wife. They were divorced in April and she immediately married his best friend - Gil and Bev were married early in August. It's a difficult set-up for her. Do you remember the house way at the end of the road here? The one that had the play pen and buggy out in the road, Well, it belongs to an Army Captain's wife - he's in France, and the baby was born last January. Mrs. Price met her when she went calling on the community chest drive, and told her about me. She has a car, and said she was anxious to meet me and stop by. I hope she does, if not I think Wendy and I will amble up there and introduce ourselves. Honey, I received your no VIII letter this afternoon - the one I was missing. Just let me say one thing about your work. If there is ever anything you feel you can't do - don't worry about it - let someone else who knows about do it - you can do the same for others- Will add a bit before turning in- [pg 4] 10:00 My dearest - I love you so very much: Gil just came for Bev a few minutes ago - we talked long and hard tonight after dinner, and I enjoyed it so much. We started about Gil and Bev. She has a rheumatic heart, and Gil is physically unable to give her any children - darling how lucky we are - Then we talked of Bev - life here in Carmel and for an hour about the statement of the priest in ‘This Above All’ that “Thinking begins where knowledge ends.” I don't really think that is true, rather I believe that thought is a very gradual outgrowth of knowledge and that the two go on hand in hand - Am I wrong? Perhaps my thoughts are not sufficiently complete. I was able to talk to Bev of you and us to some extent, which was a tremendous release: When she left Bev said that she enjoyed talking with me much more than with Bev C. It pleased me, because I felt that she understood in a way that Bev doesn't - Do you know what I mean. Oh how I ache to meet some people like Jean, Henry, Hugh, Toni, and Fran- Did not phone Dr. [L?] - will wait til the 19th. And so another day is gone - will I ever cling to minutes again I hope so - I do want to live again - To our love always- Bobby
