Weiner, Sylvia (1912-2008) to Morris "Moe" Weiner
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09414.0067 Author/Creator: Weiner, Sylvia (1912-2008) Place Written: Brooklyn, New York Type: Typed letter signed Date: 28 June 1943 Pagination: 2 p. ; 21.6 x 14 cm. Order a Copy
Written at 12:30 PM at the office. Sylvia tells him everyone at work says she looks tired after a week off with him. Glad he took the train back, as it's more comfortable.
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June 28, 1943
At the office - 12:30 P.M.
Dearest darling -
Well here I am again - once again talking to you thru this good old medium - though it had been so so pleasant to talk real words to you during the past week.
Well I am back at my old desk in this inferno for a half a day and in the human facility adjustment - I feel as though I had never been away - just as I had felt during the past week that I had n[struck: v]ever worked. And although I am pretty tired after the hectic week [strikeout] I am in some measure. refreshed by not having been at work for that week. They tell me here that although I look a little fatigued, my eyes look shiny and rested. So you see - what a week of you can do for me darling.
I am thinking as I write whether to review this week for myself and you - but as I think I am reminded that we discussed so much and so often what the furlough has meant to us that it would be so much repetition. I am not sure yet whether such repetition would not be good. I shall decide as I go on.
I do want to assure you that I am OK now. Somehow getting back to where I had left off - at a slower pace of course - has made everything sort of fall into line - if you know what I mean. I am so very very glad that I took you to the train not only so that I could have seen you to the very last moment - but because I was then assured that you were having the minimum of comfort - that is, a decent seat. I hope against hope that the trip wil[inserted: l] not have taken too much out of you in this heat. Today it is still hot but not as bad as it has been - there is a little breeze - hot though it is.
I was glad too that we had arranged to eat and see you off with the Haber bunch. I not only think they are swell people - in the usual meaning of the term - but they are extra special easy to get along with - you know kind of put you at your relaxed - best - It was good too that we. were in a bunch - you know - it seems easier with the other to share the like experience - No?
Damn it - I forget something - Did I forget to tell you how very very very wonderful you have been - and that I thank you. very much for being that way - and for loving me - Yes I forgot - Well - there it is -
Bess thinks you are the tops - Do I agree?
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It is now 12:40 P.M. Mon - You have been traveling 13 hours and have made 13/20 of the first [inserted: third] of your trip - now figure that out - if you can. I wonder where you can be at this very moment - Have you eaten of your sandwiches - has it been unbearably hot - or were you a little comfortable - It is a damn nuisance not to have the answers pronto - But I am willing to wait -
After we left you last nite - we had a very pleasant drive home - just as you directed - by way [inserted: of] the Parkway - and although Mad had originally wanted to take a shower as soon as she got home - it was so cool by the time we reached home - that she lost that appetite[struck: e]. It was swell of them to have come and stayed with me all the time - I don't know how I would have gotten home without them - they sure cheered me up in a nostalgic way - singing -songs - like "Drink to Me Only - and There's a Long Long - and all th [sic] song you love love and I love - No - darling my love it was not too too bad - and nothing like the first time - However here's to more and more furloughs - darling - when you take [inserted: y]our next drink - toast that too - We have been concentrating on the wider issues - in our toasts - but the little things make the wider things have meaning. No? -
So dearest - since I have not seen you for only 12 brief hours - I have little to report - I have decided not to go over the discussion we've had regarding the week - I know that you recall every word said - as I do - So?
But - I love you - not the same - but more than ever - Did I tell you that I think you have a changed a teenchy that you seem a more assured person - if that could have been - but it was - Well sweets I will continue this in short time -
Love as ever and ever -
Syl.
Will forward the stuff this week - darling - darling -
Oh yes Cookie.
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