Friday night, 2
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Dearest love:
I adore you, darling girl. A nice letter came from you today - but to think that you were woozy! I was going to say that I hadn't had anything to drink since you left, but I remember that we had champagne at Thanksgiving.
You are surely a clever girl to remember your algebra so well. I'll bet that there isn't another girl in the world so clever. I'm glad your luncheon was a success and that you've got Mrs Gates to vying with Mrs Crellin. I'll be glad to see her, too, since you say that she is sharp-tongued.
I got up at 10 this morning and drove back from Syracuse to Ithaca. Before waking I had a dream which nearly was disastrous (only 8 more days to go - I'm saving everything for you). I don't remember much of the dream. There were a couple of girls in it, and I put my hand on the uzzer of one and thought "She's no virgin" (though now I don't
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know how I told, since I made no detailed digital examination). Then I was wondering if she would need no urgin, and at that time woke up, with the feeling that if she had been an energetic chicken she would have got her fill of the present I'm saving for you in about one more minute - the hussy!
You surely are a wonderful wife - the best in the whole world. No other man has as fine a girl as I have.
I got home from Syracuse at noon. The drive was nice - clear still and cold, with the road going over nice rolling hills. I got your letter and some others which I answered, had lunch at Telluride, worked on the book all afternoon, came home at 6 and bathed & dressed in my tuxedo, went at 7 to Willard Straight for initiation banquet of Alpha Chi Sigma, chemical fraternity - jointly by Cornell & Colgate. Good dinner - steak. Professor Cavanaugh was the after toastmaster & I gave the speech - 15 or 20 minutes. Prof. C.
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retires soon - this is his last semester. His wife died last year and he feels old. He is a clever old fellow. He said that he would go to California next year if he lives that long. I talked about the use of thermodynamics and told some jokes. Then I came to the Telluride dance - Hampson & Springall came with college girls, & the Hoards, & Shaffer (stag), and the Smiths & Livingstons & Bethe & others. I danced with Mrs. S. & Mrs. H. & the boys' girls, & then Mrs Neurath asked me to dance with her! Which I did. I watched the dancing much of the time and wished that you were here - and the Telluride boys did too! They said that you look like an instructress (phys. ed.) on the campus, especially when dancing around. Her name is "Mimi" - I've never seen her.
I'm going to bed now, so I can work tomorrow. The boys seemed to be glad
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to have me at the dance. Several people have said to me that the boys like me.
They haven't invited us both to stay in the house - but perhaps they will.
Hampson's girl lives with the Masons, getting board & room for her help. She said that she was despondent when she first got there, thinking something was wrong with her, but now she has learned how to get on with them. She said that they were very rude and are moody, and strive all the time to be perfect, rather than natural. She said that she & Mrs Mason have a good time when Mason is away, but that Mrs M. becomes moody when he returns. I think that Hamp likes this girl - she is a tall lively girl something like Mrs Dalton.
Good night, dear little love. I adore you. I can't be happy without you, my own little sweetheart. Love, love, love, from your own husband
Linus