[enclosure is a comic drawing of two men. "The 'Slumming Party' Was Canceled". The nicely dressed gentleman asks the poorer man, "On your salary, how do you buy your wife a wardrobe for the winter season?]
[Cornell University Department of Chemistry letterhead]
Sunday, 11
55
PM
November 7, 1937
Dearest little love:
I saw you look out the window as the train left and I waved to you, but you couldn't see me in the darkness. I felt terribly lonesome as you went away, and when I think of your being gone I feel miserable, so I try not to think of it. You are my darling little wife, and I love you with all my heart.
After a few minutes I drove back to Hughes', and then Miss Williams & the Hoards left, and at 8 I drove the boys to their place and went to the Telluride House. I put my things in my room (with help from the Missouri boy) and came to the laboratory, where I have written 21 pages of manuscript. No one else has been here. Now I am going home to bed. I have the boys' car to use in the morning.
Jack has left the Sunday paper here. I read it from 8
20
to 9
00
. I an enclosing a bit.
I love you, sweetheart. Life isn't much fun without you. I hope you are sound asleep in your little berth speeding through Canada on the way to Chicago.
This letter will wait for you awhile.
I love you.
Your own Paddy
Linus