41 Love Letters R. H. Swinney to Ruth Erlanger, 1934

September 3, 1934

Letter 25

Filed under: The Letters — R. H. Swinney @ 9:54 pm

Dear heart

You can’t imagine how I’m looking forward to tomorrow and a letter from you. Three whole days is too long to wait. Darling, my darling, I do so long to hold you close, so close I can even feel your heart beat, while I kiss your lips as tenderly and gently as a clumsy lover can. But that must wait for three weeks yet—or is it three eternities? Certainly nearer the latter if time is reckoned according to my feelings?

However, you can be glad you are not here just now, for the rain, cold, and cloudiness continue. Yet what better time to have you cuddled in my arms? Imagine an open fire, a cold, rainy day, and just the two of us—but I am merely torturing myself with dreams from which I awake terribly disappointed because for the present, at least, they can’t come true.

In regard to the internship, Dr. Heinbecker says the letter from Dr. Whipple ((research)) is just as good as a promise of a place. He knows Dr. Whipple, so perhaps we are scheduled for N.Y. next year. How I dream of the time when we will be together for always, sweetheart. Then no vacations will separate us, not if I can help it. We both like the same sorts of things, outdoor life, horses, etc., so that we should never have any occasion for any trouble with our recreations. Let’s always keep close to the simple life, so that we can be happy with each other, with the sun, the moon, the sky, the sunsets, the song of a bird—without having to drive ourselves from cocktail parties to night clubs to God knows what else trying to find entertainment as so many do. But maybe that wouldn’t suit you?

Give the family my regards. I don’t say that very often, but that’s because I can think of little else but you when I write—and most of the rest of the time too.

For another time, my sweet, I must tell you good-night, but first I want to again assure you that now and forever you have—my heart and

All my love
Harold

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