7th September 1937

24th August 1937 - Mary to Terrick

Aug 24th 1937

Darling - Every day is so full - and you are always so busy - and I'm getting so sick of seeing you in spurts - that I thought I'd write to you.  Not that I've got anything to say - beyond reminding you that two weeks today you'll be starting on your much needed summer holiday - and sending you my best wishes for a nicer holiday than you've ever had before.  

I feel that you're a bit worried about money - but I suppose we should really have expected to be - deciding to get married on the minimum.  I think perhaps we have been a little extravagant here and there - over carpets, perhaps and the bedroom furniture - and the honeymoon - and I feel I'm a bit to blame with my "beauty" course and hair.  But I'm sure we shall be glad later on (bar the last two items!) - and I think we shall just manage to stay solvent when I have changed my £30.  So don't worry too much.  It makes me feel a bit sad to think you have had to miss so much of the "light-headed" feeling that I have been enjoying.  It's over now, I think, because the thought of only 14 more days is acting rather like a cold douche on my excitement.  

There are so many little things to think of - all to do with other people - that I miss the times I had to myself last term to ponder over you  - and all you meant to me. - Oh, Ticky - I am so very very afraid we are losing something precious - I want to marry you so badly - but please, please don't let us grow ordinary - I don't want to settle down a bit - just to do the same things every day - Marriage at the moment looks too middle-aged and smug to me - don't let it be - oh, darling - dearest dear - don't let it be!  Life has been so exciting - so full of meaning since I first met you - let it ever be so.  I wish you were here just to tell me it would - I should feel a bit happier then.

Mary - who will love you for always.

18th August 1937 - Mary to Terrick

Darling - here is the passport with all forms I hope complete.  I suppose they send it straight to your father? - what about the "?" then?  And we must remind him not to leave it behind in Wensley when he comes down!  I had another letter from him this morning about Mr Bernays' cheese!  He thinks I should get a nicer one if I left it until November.

My hay fever had quite disappeared when I woke up this morning.  It was awful last night.

I phoned Wrights to find their van had already left.  They had sent up a special "removal" van for everything and were only allowed to take the carpet!  I expect they're fuming a bit - but I do see it would really have been impossible for you.  I hope they don't charge us, that's all.

I'm going up to the flat after tea & Jack's coming on at 7. to have a look at a few things - we can't do much because it gets dark so early.  

I have sent that photograph of me to your father as he said he'd like it.

All my love

Mary

18th August 1937 - Mary to Terrick

Darling - dearest dear - and my very own true love - here (most romantically) is the form to be filled in for the Electric Light Co.  It seems like Double Dutch to me - but doubtless your superior brain will cope with it.  I should just fill in the top easy bit and the signature at the bottom - I'll ask them about the "particulars of installations" and "Motor & Heating apparatus" and fill them in when I return it to them.

Could you get it done to give me tomorrow?

I love you more than I shall ever be able to tell you - but perhaps, one day, I shall be able to show you how much.

Your Mary Pleasant

A wedding invitation

20th July 1937 - Mary to Terrick

The green of course is no good as we're having distemper - but choose two of the other for dining room and living room.

I love you very much.

Mary

Joyce thinks family will give us 2 bedside lamps if we want them - Pray heaven they choose alright!

20th July 1937 - Terrick to Mary

35 Nevern Place 
S.W. 5

20th July

Darling One,

This evening I only got out of the office at 9.07pm, so I am not frightfully hopeful about tomorrow evening.  Still I will let you know when I see you at Heal's at 2pm.  Tuesday is my worst day and I have finished up quite clear.

This morning I got £5 from Aunt Morley at Eastbourne.  A start!

Of the four papers the only one I don't like much is No. 3.  It is difficult to tell which of the others is best from the small bits, so decide yourself.

Have just had a very nice letter from Eileen with photos of the new garden.  She asks me to say that they are thrilled with your things and is writing to you today because she is sending you some things that she had not quite finished.  By a funny sentence, disguised for the censor, she tells me that she is sending us money for a wedding present.  Philip has a son!  But I will show you the letter tomorrow.

I have bought a gramophone record with the "Internationale" on one side and the Red Flag on the other!  But my gramophone will only play so slowly that they sound like funeral marches.

I find I did not heave my Left Book at Dunally after all.  Have you finished the one you have got?

I love you so much, petootie.  Definitely more than ever now our time of living together is so close.

All my heart & its love,

Terrick
XXX

Please bring the list up with you.  Paul wants to see it.  So does Renny in case he can't get a travelling case.