Letter, Lady Bird Taylor to Lyndon Johnson, 10/18/1934? # 2
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Letter, Lady Bird Taylor to Lyndon Johnson, 10/18/1934? # 2Description:
Lady Bird says Dorris [Powell] was unable to get tickets for the play they had planned to attend in Shreveport. Lady Bird says she wants to take her father to a show and try to get him interested in something besides work. She didn't get a letter from LBJ today; she wishes she were with him; she will not quit writing to him.Contributor:
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973Collection:
Personal Papers of Lyndon and Lady Bird JohnsonCollection Description:
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Courtship LettersSubject:
Pre-Presidential; Johnson family; Lady Bird Johnson personal; LBJ personalRights:
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pp-ctjandlbj-letters-ctj-10-18-34pmDate:
1934-10-18Date Note:
Precise date uncertain: extrapolated here by LBJ Library archives staffTime Period:
Pre-Presidential (Before Nov. 22, 1963)Transcript:
[Written on BIRD TAYLOR stationery][October 18, 1934 pm ?]
Thursday Night
8:30 p.m.
Sweetheart –
Dorris came out only to tell me that all the tickets had been sold for both tonight and tomoro night. And I am so disappointed! I had looked forward to it so much.
--Alas-!--But anyway there is a good show on Sunday afternoon “The House of Rothschild,” to which I shall take Daddy. I’m making a great effort to get Dad interested in something besides cotton, mules and fertilizer. Ever since Mother
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died sixteen years ago he has been receding from all social contacts until he has almost no friends outside of business ones--and no little dinners, drinking parties, golf, or poker games. I’d so like him to…That’s one of the things I’m going to do this year--get him to do something besides work…The trouble, of course, was that Miss Beulah, his second wife, neither knew nor cared--nor quite fitted--with any of Dad’s friends or activities of the before-Mother-died period…But here I go telling you all the family affairs and why should you be interested!!-- Only,
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darling there’s no one I’d rather talk to, about anything. So you’re victimized!
Today I took our radio to town to be fixed so I can hear the NBC appreciation hour-- remember the booklets you sent me? I am quite put out because they can’t fix it by time for the first one tomoro morning.
I probably write most boring letters, do I dear? They are about such petty, innocuous things! But then I just simply want to write you every day so I usually do. Though there’s nothing clever to say.
The moon is back to annoy me. It is far too beautiful tonight--I wish it would go away.
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There wasn’t any letter when Dorris came! But do I sound like I’m fussing? I hope not-- cause I just mean to let you know I notice it and miss it on the days there isn’t one. I wouldn’t so much if the last one hadn’t given me forebodings.
I wonder what you’re doing tonight…Studying, I guess, because you can’t very well play until the week-end, can you? Oh my dear, how I wish I were with you tonight!
If there isn’t a letter tomoro I shall feel sure you’ve forsaken me--I may even wire. But there’s one thing I won’t do--that’s not write myself, or write coolly! Goodnight, and lots and lots of love to my own dear, Bird