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462 November 16 - Friday - 5:45 P.M. Dearly Beloved: Happy Anniversary - and it is happy this year with prospects of your early return home so bright. “Breakfast at 8:00 - Telephone (N.Y. Yonkers, Boston) subway to Penn Station - 11:00 - Back Bay 4:00 - Taxi - Cambridge - Hotel Commander - Walk - Drum Grill - Taxi- Boston - Copley Plaza - Red carnations - “Dearly Beloved” - 9:00 train - Penn Station 4:00 A. W! letter to Bev - Bus Terminal Subway - 18th St! Have 5:00 A.M.” That was a day truly worthy of the occasion! Last night after I went to bed, I couldn't get to sleep for [pg 2] thinking that Wendy would probably wake me up. After an hour or so, I picked her up and took her in to sleep with me, and we slept thru til 7:00. I think babies must be like puppies and kittens - sleeping best curled up against their mothers. I wonder if a nervous high strung baby would profit by sleeping with its mother or better still its parents. Two Specials from you today! The long missing letter finally caught up with me - took 20 days, so it must have come by surface, and this afternoon your letter of the 10th Am still missing the 8th and 9th. Your letter about the proposed job disturbs me no little. You sound very enthusiastic about the prospects, and I'm hoping that you’re not too disappointed in my dampening [pg 3] reaction. Darling, I don't want to live out there even for a couple of years. I can see some of the advantages, but hell, you ought to be able to get something worthwhile here in the States. Four thousand isn't such a terrific salary - why can't we put our heads together, and think up something different for you to do here. I wish we could be our own boss. Jerry phoned this morning to tell me that Reni had cabled that he would arrive about the 30th on the U.S.S. Comet. He certainly had a rough time getting out! I have 14 nighties sweety - five of them new and four dresses that you haven't seen - two of them backless summer jobs. I'm glad I didn't get this letter before last Saturday's news, or I would have felt terribly discouraged. I’d like to spend a week in [pg 4] Memphis, and at least a month in New York, if we’re not going to be living in the general vicinity when we settle down. If our income is low, we'll have to live where it won't cost so much - but then we will want to live away from a city anyway. You haven't ever told me, what you dug up on jobs here in the States - didn't anything look promising? 370 Thank you for the pictures by the way - don't forget to get as many as you can, before you leave. “Nov 3 - 1945 - Nov 3 - 1942=4 years” --- that began to bother me about a week or so ago, and I wondered if I had made the mistake when writing you, or just imagined it. Now I know! But this has been a hell of a long year! [pg 5] Wendy made up a new game this afternoon - she’d open the door, go out, close it and say “’bye” - then a few minutes later, open it, come in smiling, saying “Hi!” and looking very pleased with herself. When I gave her the lighted flashlight to play with, she tried to blow it out like a match- I don't know any more about Gary then I told you - I don't believe he sees his father at all - which would be perfectly natural, if he walked out after Gary's birth - He'll be delighted with the things you are sending him- The sponge cake certainly was edible, and we ate every crumb. 9:30 P.M. This morning I took on a real job - stained the whole living room floor with oak stain. It was a hell of a lot of work, but I do want the house to look nice for [pg 6] you. If I tackle one big job a week I should get everything done, and still not be tired out when you arrive. That way, we'll have a minimum of work to do while we’re vacationing here, and everything will be in order when we leave. Helen came over this evening to say good-bye - they are leaving tomorrow morning at seven. Its been pleasant having Helen nearby and Wendy has enjoyed Bob. Think I will pour out a jigger now, and go to bed - its cold and damp, but there's a gorgeous, moon--- Goodnight Sweety - I love you deeply and tenderly with all that's in me- Bobby
