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414 Sunday - Sept. 29 - 8:15 P.M. 9:30 P.M. - Helen just brought me some back letters which I'll answer tomorrow- My Dearest Darling: Golly, but I guess I'm a sissy. Bev phoned and asked Wendy and me to a waffle breakfast tomorrow morning, and sweety I just couldn't say yes. Instead I asked them up for a drink tomorrow afternoon. There's something about yours own house which makes for stability, and I'm feeling awfully unsteady these days. And the enclosed clipping - does what you wrote about 3 or 4 months still go? If I don't soon stop getting conflicting reports from [Luther?] and you I'll go bats. I'm still waiting for back letters. On the subject of your getting an MG and going into teaching - conditions are so unstable now, its [pg 2] hard to say. However, I’d always be in favor of your choosing teaching as a profession, because not only is it something you would enjoy, but it would give us the maximum of time for ourselves. There is this to consider tho, because our financial back log is so low, you will have to start earning a salary immediately after your discharge. That's why, no matter what you decide to do afterwards, I think it would be such a good idea to get to Washington, providing of course that it doesn't keep us apart any longer to begin with. Then with six months ahead of us, we could plan at our leisure what's best to do. If you do go into teaching, the next consideration after your satisfaction, is our income. I know we don't [pg 3] ever need an enormous amount, but we do need a comfortable income enough to live well, because neither of us would be happy otherwise, and certainly enough to raise and educate our children. Then, the third thing to think about is whether you would have to study and teach at the same time. I don't want that sweety - its too much of a strain, whether or not it seems so now. If on the other hand you could get a good high school or prep job, and get your degree during the next summer or two I’d be all for it. Its awfully hard to talk something like this over back and forth in letters, and I'm writing blindly because of course I haven't yet received your letter explaining tentative plans you might be considering. But darling, do try and get into [pg 4] that Washington deal - I do think it would be a big help to us. If you could get out of the Navy late next summer, you would be ready to start the Fall term in September, and we wouldn't lose any time. Somewhere along the line too, begins our new baby, and this time it probably won't be another $17.50 job! This afternoon at the beach I was completely taken with a 7 year old boy. I first noticed him because he somewhat resembled you - when I got to talking with him, he told me that he has an older brother and two younger sisters. I didn't see the brother, but the little girls both blond, were darling - aged 1 and 3. They have a house right off the beach and a very lively airdale pup. Probably if you were home, we would have started adding to our family pronto, because that is [pg 5] just the way I felt. Helen sold the car today so that writes finis to our trips to the beach. She got $465 top ceiling for a 1937 Ford Convertible, which isn't bad at all. Top ceiling on “[Uwasa?]” out here would have been about $185, but that's because I think prices are generally higher on the coast. Oh here's something funny I must tell you about. Early this morning when Wendy woke up and called “Mummy” I crawled down to the bottom of the bed to lift her over the side of the crib. In the process, she banged her chin, and started to howl. I was half asleep but I started to feel for her month to see if her teeth were all there, and all I could feel was what seemed to be a large lump and no teeth at all! It was a full minute I think, before I realized that I’d stuck my finger in her ear instead of her mouth!! Your loving if slightly confused wife - Bobby
