Letter, Lady Bird Taylor to Lyndon Johnson, 9/14/1934?

Specific Item Type:

Correspondence

Type:

Text

Format:

Paper

Identifier:

pp-ctjandlbj-letters-ctj-9-14-34

Date:

1934-09-14

Date Note:

Precise date uncertain: extrapolated here by LBJ Library archives staff

Time Period:

Pre-Presidential (Before Nov. 22, 1963)

Transcript:

[Written on C T stationery]
[September 14, 1934 ?]
Friday Nite
Darling -
I hadn’t meant to write you as soon again but all of a sudden I miss you so--I just have to! I wish you were sitting here by me.
Dorris and I broke out of seclusion today and went to Shreveport--quite a trek for us, all of 42 miles. I had the very intriguing business of buying a stove for the house, and of selling a bunch of cowhides for Dad, and of getting a lovely old Chippendale chair of mother’s
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that was being re-bottomed. Lyndon, you’ve no idea how many things I’m learning about--a whole world of them! I’m getting very useful.
We had company for supper--my Uncle Walter and Aunt Nettie came up. They’re part of the clan. I love having company, don’t you? That’s one of the plans that’s next to my heart for next Spring--or June--or sometime--having all the people I love down for several house parties. Two I want most are Gene and you.
I just had a letter from Emily wanting me to come to Dallas and an urgent
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one from Millie wanting me to come to New Orleans. But I shan’t go anywhere until I get nice lot of things done here!....And until I’m very tired and need to play.
There’s a negro church up on the hill--Mt. Sinai--I’ve been there several times--and now they’re having meeting there and I can hear them singing so plainly…Its a lovely, weird chant. Mt. Sinai is right at the edge of the big pine woods where I’ve gone walking all my life since I was about four. Someday let’s go walking there, dear! Or do you not like to get out in the country and run and jump?
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I do. And there’s some place else!--the hills outside Austin where you said you’d take me sometime…There are a million things I’d like to do with you!
The more I think about it the more I want to come to Washington right after Christmas. Of course it will all depend on when its most convenient for you--the finals and all. I’ve already started brushing my hair diligently every night and letting it grow so it will be long and nice when I see you again, Lyndon!
I am so thrilled I shall get to talk to you Sunday night! All day I shall think of it--and then probably not have anything important enough to say! It was so sweet--and deliciously unexpected of you to wire…Goodnight, dearest, my love Bird