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FACULTY CLUB

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

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Sunday, 11AM

Dearest little wife:

I love you with all my heart, darling, and every day I count up the days until I shall see you again. Won't it be fun to be together all the time? Don't you think we'd better arrange to go everywhere together after this? I can't get along without you, sweetheart - it really is true. Since coming back from my week-end trip with you I've tried to work, but it is impossible for me to concentrate on anything but you. When I start thinking about the magnetic moments of molecules, that suggest the vector model, and that the structure of complex ions, and that your structure (not that you are at all angular or geo- [new line] metrical!) And here I am back to you! And if I start on quantum mechanics, it is necessary to work with eigenfunctions, which in English are called proper

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functions, and since my proper function is to make love to you, there I am again! Well, it won't be many more ages till next Saturday, and then I'll exercise my proper function so much you'll want me to go away again.

Yesterday I read a book by Henri Barbusse, called "L'Enfer". It is about a man who for a month watches through a hole in the wall everything that takes place in a room next to his, and attempts to under- [new line] stand life and deduce its significance and purpose from what he sees. Perhaps you would like to read it - it is really original in conception.

Yesterday afternoon the Stuarts and I went to the Partheneia [sic]. It was not much good - rather boring after the first ten minutes. Lots of the girls were too fat and clumsy, some to [sic] thin.

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The dancing was mainly classical, with only a little tap dancing. As was to be expected, the allegory was a very feeble excuse. Despite all this, Stuart (from cold Königsberg, where girls never get their overcoats off) said that it was all right, except that it didn't last long enough.

Last night Laurence and I went to the movie, see "June Moon". We had a good time. Then I read part of a book on Al Capone which he lent me. At noon Aunt Beth and her family & Rich are coming, and I'm taking them to a show & to dinner (first). Then I'm going to try to visit the Hall's before

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going to a waffle supper at the Jenkin's.

I love you, darling.

Your own,

Paddy