Monday, December 29, 2014

December 29, 1932 - Thursday


After I dressed this morning I packed my robe. After lunch Eleanor and I read. At four I went over to Mrs. Earl’s to tea. Home and changed and to the Symphony with Bill. Then packed to leave tomorrow at 8:30.

Dearest George,

This is the last letter that I will write to you from here. Isn’t that exciting? I will mail it tomorrow and then the day after that I will be on that awful old train for an uncomfortable ride that will end so happily. It will be even more uncomfortable than it was coming down because there will be the surprise. I don’t know whether I can stand it or not. When you meet me at the station I am afraid I will be a pretty sight. I will be worn to a frazil with suspense and excitement. I will have chewed all my lipstick off and my hat will probably be on at a very peculiar angel. It will be test of your love if you can accept me in that condition and in front of all the people in the station. Dear, please don’t wear a hat because I should hate to not see you right away. I might overlook you in my excitement if I couldn’t see your blond head in the crowd. Let’s see in 72 hours I will be in your arms.

O, dear, I am getting excited already.  Seventy-two hours is still a horribly long time tho’.  There, be still my fluttering hear (Don’t tell me I never took poetry).

O, George look at all this nonsense I have written. Just think of the terrible state I will be in when you finally meet me at the station. You had better take some chloroform along to the station in case you can’t handle me. I warn you I am going to be a danger to your driving. As you have probably gathered, dear, I am so anxious to see you. I got your two airmail letters today and now that makes nine treasurers that I have locked away in the top of my suit case. I told everyone of them, dear. I am afraid mine haven’t been very satisfactory because the writing is so terrible and the spelling is worse if that is possible. I couldn’t have stood the separation if it hadn’t been for the letters. I get terribly blue as it is. With your letters I got a picture of Doro which is just darling. It has been wandering around Pasadena for sometime because the address was 499 instead of 449. It is the position that I liked best. I wonder if she gave Jean one.

This afternoon I went on a tour of inspection. Mrs. Williams and I went out to Claremont. It takes about forty minutes to get out there. We had lunch with some friends of Mrs. Williams and then in the afternoon they took us all over the Panorama and Script campus.  I wasn’t very impressed with Panorama campus but it is still young and from all they say destined to go far. They have a beautiful auditorium however. Scripts was much more beautiful but it has all the ear marks of an expensive girls school which it is. It has beautiful surroundings but I doubt I would like the atmosphere. Give me my dear old university any time. I had a lot of defending to do this afternoon. We left there about four o’clock and I came home to two beautiful letters. After dinner we were going to a play but the wind was blowing so hard Mrs. Williams was afraid to go out into it. I don’t think it was anything to be afraid of but it was certainly blowing a gale. It was hard to keep your feet when you were out in it. I heard a little thunder but we didn’t get any rain. It has died down now.

Mr. Hutchinson the father of one of the little girls in the school was over this evening and we played triple solitaire until the wicked hour of ten thirty.

Tomorrow Mrs. Williams suggested that we go to the Brown Derby to lunch and see the movie stars but she has some guests coming in the afternoon so I don’t know whether that will materialize. In the afternoon I am going over to Mrs. Earl’s to tea and to meet Debora Kever a girl I have met a couple of times when I have been down here  before.

In the evening I am going to a symphony concert with Bill Earl. Then Friday morning early I start on my exciting trip so that means among other things I have to do some packing tomorrow. That will make tomorrow go rather fast but O for Friday and Saturday. I can’t read very much because it hurts my eyes on the train. O, that it were only Saturday evening now instead of only Wednesday evening.

You sent me a picture in one of your letters. Here is one for you. Does that look like anyone you now?

Miles upon miles of love and more love,


Annie.

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