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Saturday, August 15, 1953--DETROIT, MICH.-- And it was just as exciting to see you at the airport then as it had been that first time at Boston...And it was a marvellous two days together, with everything in focus and head and heart and soul and body in harmony with themselves and with those of the other. The new car was a sort of symbol of many things, and the trip to the site at Ann Arbor a promise of similar excursions, and the drive and the trees and the sense of being in Michigan were all like beautiful and possible promises. And wide-ranging talk together. 

And then another home in the hotel and our hungriness for eachother and then more talk and then to dinner and the fun of dining out in Detroit and then home and close and the wonder of saying goodnight to eachother and of hearing your prayer.

Sunday, August 16, 1953--DETROIT, MICH.-- Watching the fire from the window and loving you for being interested in it. And then breakfast and the agreement and your reasonable, logical talk with Jayne and then the TV briefly until the drinks came and then the incredibly wonderful love-making. Then more talk about TV and you marvellously helpful and generative for me. Then nice talk about your work and your interesting and provocative remarks about steel esthetics and concrete (which raises a fascinating question and something wemust talk about sometime) and the nice sense of ideas stirring and concepts being imagined and examined and discarded or accepted and checked. And then the quiet time--the "married moments" time--until we had to awaken. And then talk while dressing and you so generous with me about my problems and then champagne cocktails and lunch and the sweet goodbye kisses which worked their usual magic so we hated to pursue packing instead of love. And the drive to the airport--and the few minutes in the same chairs on which we sat when all this began...

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There are hearts stamps at the bottom of the letter - I am not sure whether to include them in the transcription.