December 14, 1935
Dearest Ava Helen:
It is now 5 30 - you have been gone twenty-three hours. We are all lonesome for you. Peter said today that he wished you were here. Linus has just come into my office, having returned his library book and got another.
Last night I read a mystery story and then went to bed with Peter, after putting Linda in her own bed. This morning the children & I shopped - Lola made good baked beans and doughnuts for lunch. After lunch we all went out for oranges and then spent two hours in the Monrovia park. The children and I walked along the path up the canyon while Lola read. I have now been correcting examination papers, and shall soon go home to dinner.
No mail or telegram has come.
I love you, little darling, and hope that you will soon come back to us.
Your own
Linus
December
14, 1935
