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THOMAS, DYLAN. Autograph letter signed ("Dylan") TO HIS WIFE CAITLIN, "as from Garden Flat, 45a, Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead," "Monday afternoon," n.d. [later 1940s]. 2 pages, 12mo, in pencil on both sides of lined sheet, a little wrinkled, some slight soiling.
"I LOVE YOU CATTY DARLING I LOVE YOU"
"Darling, my dear darling Cat, my love, I love you for ever, please my sweet think of me I love you Catty darling I love you. I'm writing this, very quick, very short, in me bloody BBC Maida Vale Studio where Louis's [MacNeice] endless play is going on. And tonight...I'm reading Edith's [Sitwell] vast bad poem. Try to listen dear. It was recorded, but I'm going to do it 'live,' again. Here's a tiny cheque. I daren't do any more until I get the letters sent to me...that I hope are in Holywell Ford [the A.J.P. Taylor residence at Oxford where the Thomases stayed in a summerhouse] now. Please do send them, Cat my beautiful darling. Then I can send another cheque...I don't want to phone because of maudlin Magdalen Maggie [Mrs. Taylor]. Will you phone me before you take Aeron [their daughter born in 1943] (how is she?) to school? About 9-ish...I love you I love you I love you. Dylan XXX [for kisses] & all in the world..."
"I LOVE YOU CATTY DARLING I LOVE YOU"
"Darling, my dear darling Cat, my love, I love you for ever, please my sweet think of me I love you Catty darling I love you. I'm writing this, very quick, very short, in me bloody BBC Maida Vale Studio where Louis's [MacNeice] endless play is going on. And tonight...I'm reading Edith's [Sitwell] vast bad poem. Try to listen dear. It was recorded, but I'm going to do it 'live,' again. Here's a tiny cheque. I daren't do any more until I get the letters sent to me...that I hope are in Holywell Ford [the A.J.P. Taylor residence at Oxford where the Thomases stayed in a summerhouse] now. Please do send them, Cat my beautiful darling. Then I can send another cheque...I don't want to phone because of maudlin Magdalen Maggie [Mrs. Taylor]. Will you phone me before you take Aeron [their daughter born in 1943] (how is she?) to school? About 9-ish...I love you I love you I love you. Dylan XXX [for kisses] & all in the world..."