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Monday evening -

Dear wife, today I had your telegram and 2 letters, thank you.  I understand very well that you want to go to Riviera, it's going to do you good. (But please darling think of you not as a bored, neglected wife, I know you well but I tell you these things because you might have the those thoughts now at the end of the month and I want to reassure you that I love you more than ever before, not that I didn't love you much last year or before, but I feel now how my love for you is growing with time. And I want to mean that [[crossed out]] you [[/crossed out]] I trust you very much. Thank you.

I'm now at home after a very trying evening with Cesar Civita who came at 5 at studio, had diner together at Del Pezzo (ate garlic -) and then walked around Times Square and ended in a shop where he bought records for an hour or more. I'm dead tired and I'm having a scotch.

I'm working well for Detroit. I hope to have the proofs of the book in about 2 weeks. I'm going to have the proofs of the book in about 2 weeks. I'm going to buy a suit, I'm going to get a haircut soon (none since you left), I read more the short stories of Ring Lardner, I mailed you summer clothing to Le Royal, I took Rothko and his wife to lunch to a french restaurant in the neighborhood and got them happy with martinis, I made Betty my agent for people who write me wanting to buy originals (25%) - I write you these things to tell you want comes to my mind besides the thing that is always there, my love for you (that I'll show when I'll see you soon dear, darling, beautiful, rabitt, good night dear C.S., C.F. C.B., S.D., etc of mine. Good night dear  


 



 

Transcription Notes:
César Civita was an American-Argentine publisher, who in 1936 became general manager of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in Italy. Following passage of the Race Laws in 1938, he emigrated with his family to New York to escape the discriminatory restrictions since they were at risk for being Jewish. Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre.