“I love you darling, and on these nice warm days and nights I miss you awfully even when I’m only gone a week at a time.”
Scans of Jim’s thirty-third letter to Thelma.
“I suppose you went to the movies and did not have time to write with the studying to do when when you got home. Was the movie any good? I wish I could have gone with you ’cause I like to go with you, you make me feel so nice when you’re with me.”
Scans of Jim’s thirty-second letter to Thelma.
“I’ll also be glad when the dances start again, ’cause I just love to dance with you. Just to hold you in my arms when dancing makes me the happiest person on earth.”
Scans of Jim’s thirty-first letter to Thelma.
“It’s lovely out right now. The snow is all wet and sticky, just right for snowballs. I wish I was home with you tonight ’cause I’d love to have a snowball fight with you.”
Scans of Jim’s thirtieth letter to Thelma.
“Come to think of it the letters are what you might call a record of our acquantance. They begin just casually and then become more and more ‘friendly’. It’s very interesting to see how it developed into our ‘mutual feeling of affection of the present.'”
Scans of Jim’s twenty-ninth letter to Thelma.