Letter, Lady Bird Taylor to Lyndon Johnson, 10/18/1934?

Specific Item Type:

Correspondence

Type:

Text

Format:

Paper

Identifier:

pp-ctjandlbj-letters-ctj-10-18-34

Date:

1934-10-18

Date Note:

Precise date uncertain: extrapolated here by LBJ Library archives staff

Time Period:

Pre-Presidential (Before Nov. 22, 1963)

Transcript:

[Written on BIRD TAYLOR stationery]
[October 18, 1934 ?]
Do these letters mailed Friday get to you on Sunday as I mean them to?
Thursday afternoon
Darling –
I’ve just time to write you before Dorris comes by to take me to the Little Theatre…Its been a very busy and fairly successful day, dear--and I’m just sitting down, for the first time today,--with that satisfied feeling you have when you think you’ve done something.
This morning I went to town on business (everybody laughs when I say that!) and after finishing had lunch with Mrs. Boehringer,
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who had just made some delicious bread out of our book. She’d had your letter and was most sorry about you being sick but I told her you were well again.
There wasn’t any letter this morning--none from you, I mean--so I left Dorris word to come by the store on her way out and fetch it, if any. When I see her coming I shall have that feeling I used to have fifteen or so years ago when I’d run in the room I’d hung my stocking in on bright and early Christmas morning! You know--gaily expectant.
Lyndon, do you know you
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didn’t’ write a word in any of my books? And one more thing, dear, when should I get the library books back? I’ve finished a little pamphlet on agriculture by Wallace and found it the most lucid thing I’ve ever read on the subject. Now that I’ve the “New Dealers” though I find it hard to stop that and look at anything else!
How do you like law now that you’re really in it? Is it interesting enough to be a life profession? I should like to watch you study!...Down at school during finals I used to curl up on the sofa in front of the fire, me and
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whomever I had a date with, and study, stopping once or twice during the evening to go out for a cup of coffee or milk. It’s always more fun to tell it to somebody when you come across a particularly interesting or significant point, isn’t it? I like to work with people too--not by myself.
Goodbye for today, my dearest. Please let there be a sweet letter every day--at least most every day, will you? (Often as you want to talk to me but not so often as to be a bother--or a “duty”) I love you so very much,
Bird