O.V.S.
Thursday
Dear Old Thing - here is Patricia's best attempt on the gym piano. - it's all I can remember - perhaps they played it over & over again!! It sounds awfully good if played with feeling, taking notice of the dots.
I loved yesterday evening - & got to bed beautifully late - the nicest bit was our cup of coffee.
Miss Cross wants you to suggest somewhere she can go for a week's holiday at Easter. As hot as possible (probably S. France) and as small as possible she wanted to fly but thinks it's too expensive.
Just off to Shakespeare - had wonderful game of squash.
All my love
Mary
xxx
Saturday 25 February 2017
Thursday 23 February 2017
23rd February 1937 - Terrick to Mary
35 Nevern Place
S.W.5
23rd February 1937
Dearest Girl,
How I am looking forward to tomorrow! It seems longer than usual since I last saw you, perhaps only because I have been so busy.
This morning a letter arrived from the Enquiry Office of Imperial Airways, the man Monk had told me to write to, a silly letter saying they had no vacancy at my salary but he could offer me a job in the Enquiry Dept at £3 a week. Would I ring him if I was interested? So in the lunch hour I went down and saw him. Apparently Monk was correct in all the information he gave me except that the Enquiry Officer was the man to write to. The E.O. only dealt with jobs in his own section - in which Monk himself was. I told the E.O. his job was no good to me, and that I was only interested in the more highly paid jobs which I understood were abroad. He confirmed this and said that the Staff Dept dealt with those jobs but he would get them to send me full particulars. So that is how thing stand - pretty much as before. He said that the people in the jobs I want are mostly "Director's pups" and that there is great competition for the jobs. So I'll get a list of the directors and send it home for the old folks to see if they know any of them directly or indirectly.
I have got you a copy of the Leeds Mercury of 18th April last. Quite a good photo. Daddy was in the Daily Mirror yesterday for reviving a 110 year old custom of a dinner where anyone who talks shop is fined 2/6, at a certain inn & at a certain time. He has invited one guest, the Bishop of Ripon, who has accepted. Crackers!
This evening I worked till after eight, but I'll get away early tomorrow. Come round at about 6.15pm not before. I have a copy of the Leeds Mercury.
This is my last sheet of notepaper so I'll go onto this.
Renny has got a photograph of Evelyn which you must see. She looks very beautiful in it, but it takes all the character out of her face. Yesterday evening I spent helping with his German.
I wanted to have the different parts of the Albert Hall marked with the national flags but I find that the only official German flag now is the Crooked Cross (Swastika) and that was a bit too much even for the right wingers in the firm, so I have dropped the idea. At Mr May's request I am doing my best to get von Ribbentrop to come, but it goes against the grain. He is at the Leipzig Fair at the moment and may not be back in time.
All tomorrow I shall have the relieving feeling in the middle of my hurly burly of work that I am going to meet you at the end of it. It will be like the pillar of smoke in the wilderness. It is almost a pity to think that one day it will become an everyday matter.
Goodnight, my dear one
Terrick
XXX
S.W.5
23rd February 1937
Dearest Girl,
How I am looking forward to tomorrow! It seems longer than usual since I last saw you, perhaps only because I have been so busy.
This morning a letter arrived from the Enquiry Office of Imperial Airways, the man Monk had told me to write to, a silly letter saying they had no vacancy at my salary but he could offer me a job in the Enquiry Dept at £3 a week. Would I ring him if I was interested? So in the lunch hour I went down and saw him. Apparently Monk was correct in all the information he gave me except that the Enquiry Officer was the man to write to. The E.O. only dealt with jobs in his own section - in which Monk himself was. I told the E.O. his job was no good to me, and that I was only interested in the more highly paid jobs which I understood were abroad. He confirmed this and said that the Staff Dept dealt with those jobs but he would get them to send me full particulars. So that is how thing stand - pretty much as before. He said that the people in the jobs I want are mostly "Director's pups" and that there is great competition for the jobs. So I'll get a list of the directors and send it home for the old folks to see if they know any of them directly or indirectly.
I have got you a copy of the Leeds Mercury of 18th April last. Quite a good photo. Daddy was in the Daily Mirror yesterday for reviving a 110 year old custom of a dinner where anyone who talks shop is fined 2/6, at a certain inn & at a certain time. He has invited one guest, the Bishop of Ripon, who has accepted. Crackers!
This evening I worked till after eight, but I'll get away early tomorrow. Come round at about 6.15pm not before. I have a copy of the Leeds Mercury.
This is my last sheet of notepaper so I'll go onto this.
Renny has got a photograph of Evelyn which you must see. She looks very beautiful in it, but it takes all the character out of her face. Yesterday evening I spent helping with his German.
I wanted to have the different parts of the Albert Hall marked with the national flags but I find that the only official German flag now is the Crooked Cross (Swastika) and that was a bit too much even for the right wingers in the firm, so I have dropped the idea. At Mr May's request I am doing my best to get von Ribbentrop to come, but it goes against the grain. He is at the Leipzig Fair at the moment and may not be back in time.
All tomorrow I shall have the relieving feeling in the middle of my hurly burly of work that I am going to meet you at the end of it. It will be like the pillar of smoke in the wilderness. It is almost a pity to think that one day it will become an everyday matter.
Goodnight, my dear one
Terrick
XXX
Sunday 19 February 2017
18th February 1937 - Mary to Terrick
O.V.S.
Thursday
My darling - as I never get a letter from you now I presume it's because you don't get enough from me - so I thought I'd write one to hold over your head until I can come down to breakfast one blissful & heaven-sent morning to find the nicest looking envelope on my plate. Although I'm afraid it would cause many ribald remarks from the assembled crowd - as it's honestly time - the only single letter I've had this term has been from the Postmaster General!
I have just come back from our last rehearsal which went fairly well - time is the only real worry as we can only allow 10 secs. for each change of scene!! Mrs Sunley (senior) says she hopes to meet you at last on Saturday (I expect their seats are somewhere near ours). We play first (which is really quite nice if you think about it - in case we had a comedy before us) so I shall have to be there about 6.30 and shall be able to come down to my seat directly afterwards. Mummy won't be able to come - she is better but still in bed. Can we spend a nice afternoon together? We needn't do anything special. It's a pity we couldn't have looked for a flat - it would have been such a good opportunity! I wonder if you will have heard from Imperial Airways - I have been thinking about it a lot. probably because every breath I have breathed for the last four or five weeks has been a plan for getting married this April (quite groundless - I grant you!) - and now the chance that I might have to dust everything and put it safely away in some deep corner for another year (not only material things - which are more easily disposed of - but hopes and fears and aches - and plans for ways and means of living) - has snapped me off, and I'm left a bit rudderless since yesterday. My new pillowcases don't look quite so exciting - and my underclothes tend to mock me as I work.
But I assure you this is but the feeling of a day. It would be a wonderful, wonderful thing for you to be somewhere where you could really feel it was worth while working on - where people would really appreciate what you can do. - and so that you could make a wonderful lot of all the money you despise so much - and retire and write books and live in a flat roofed house with a cat and three sons and a daughter and your name would go down to posterity - and I should love you and see that you had everything you wanted always without worrying you - so that you could think of things. (This is rather a long sentence - but you can understand it if you try)
- There are times ahead of us we dream not of - which will exceed any time we have lived so far - because we shall be together - and I don't mind for myself one bit if I'm rich or poor as long as you're there.
"It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive" come from "Virginibus Puerisque (?)"
Kathleen Hayes & her mother saw you three walking down Shaftesbury Avenue on Tuesday simply roaring with laughter!!
It is now 11.15p.m. and I can't keep awake - I hope Bradford went well - you might make a mighty effort and either phone before 8p.m. or write tomorrow - just so that I know you're back safely - & think what we can do on Saturday. We needn't spend any money. I get off at 1p.m.
All my love
Mary Pleasant
P.S. What about the Seagull Guides if you get an offer from I.A.?
Thursday
My darling - as I never get a letter from you now I presume it's because you don't get enough from me - so I thought I'd write one to hold over your head until I can come down to breakfast one blissful & heaven-sent morning to find the nicest looking envelope on my plate. Although I'm afraid it would cause many ribald remarks from the assembled crowd - as it's honestly time - the only single letter I've had this term has been from the Postmaster General!
I have just come back from our last rehearsal which went fairly well - time is the only real worry as we can only allow 10 secs. for each change of scene!! Mrs Sunley (senior) says she hopes to meet you at last on Saturday (I expect their seats are somewhere near ours). We play first (which is really quite nice if you think about it - in case we had a comedy before us) so I shall have to be there about 6.30 and shall be able to come down to my seat directly afterwards. Mummy won't be able to come - she is better but still in bed. Can we spend a nice afternoon together? We needn't do anything special. It's a pity we couldn't have looked for a flat - it would have been such a good opportunity! I wonder if you will have heard from Imperial Airways - I have been thinking about it a lot. probably because every breath I have breathed for the last four or five weeks has been a plan for getting married this April (quite groundless - I grant you!) - and now the chance that I might have to dust everything and put it safely away in some deep corner for another year (not only material things - which are more easily disposed of - but hopes and fears and aches - and plans for ways and means of living) - has snapped me off, and I'm left a bit rudderless since yesterday. My new pillowcases don't look quite so exciting - and my underclothes tend to mock me as I work.
But I assure you this is but the feeling of a day. It would be a wonderful, wonderful thing for you to be somewhere where you could really feel it was worth while working on - where people would really appreciate what you can do. - and so that you could make a wonderful lot of all the money you despise so much - and retire and write books and live in a flat roofed house with a cat and three sons and a daughter and your name would go down to posterity - and I should love you and see that you had everything you wanted always without worrying you - so that you could think of things. (This is rather a long sentence - but you can understand it if you try)
- There are times ahead of us we dream not of - which will exceed any time we have lived so far - because we shall be together - and I don't mind for myself one bit if I'm rich or poor as long as you're there.
"It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive" come from "Virginibus Puerisque (?)"
Kathleen Hayes & her mother saw you three walking down Shaftesbury Avenue on Tuesday simply roaring with laughter!!
It is now 11.15p.m. and I can't keep awake - I hope Bradford went well - you might make a mighty effort and either phone before 8p.m. or write tomorrow - just so that I know you're back safely - & think what we can do on Saturday. We needn't spend any money. I get off at 1p.m.
All my love
Mary Pleasant
P.S. What about the Seagull Guides if you get an offer from I.A.?
Tuesday 14 February 2017
Sunday 12 February 2017
12th February 1937 - Mary to Terrick
Darling - dearest one
I'm sitting in the office waiting for Miss Cross who is very late & making me waste a lot of invaluable time. I must just write you this because you're such a long way away - & I always feel more and more desolate the further you go.
Did you go the the pictures last night? - It was heartbreaking to have to leave you when I just felt I wanted you to myself so badly. I was bad-tempered all the way there - & took ages to find the place. It's very tiny in a little side street. The rehearsal didn't really go well - but it was fun seeing everybody in their costumes. Mine is frightfully tight & makes me stick out in front like nothing on earth - Kathleen has a fair wig with two plaits!!
We left off about 10.30 and Ralph brought us home. he's taking us again tonight - I'm going down at 6.30 to have supper at their flat. I've always wanted to see it!!
Grannie has offered to embroider an initial on my 4 towels - can I have an FH or must it be only F? She wondered if you could make up a fairly simple monogram for them. It'll be the most exciting thing I've had done yet.
How have the two Reunions gone? Lots of people? - and are you dead tired?
I'm simply longing to have your photograph by my bed - but I can't part with the other so I think I'll have to have them both.
Olsson has gone to enquire about that record for me - perhaps we'll have it for the weekend.
I love you more than anything else in the world - my darling -
Think of me a lot
Your own
Mary Pleasant
I'm sitting in the office waiting for Miss Cross who is very late & making me waste a lot of invaluable time. I must just write you this because you're such a long way away - & I always feel more and more desolate the further you go.
Did you go the the pictures last night? - It was heartbreaking to have to leave you when I just felt I wanted you to myself so badly. I was bad-tempered all the way there - & took ages to find the place. It's very tiny in a little side street. The rehearsal didn't really go well - but it was fun seeing everybody in their costumes. Mine is frightfully tight & makes me stick out in front like nothing on earth - Kathleen has a fair wig with two plaits!!
We left off about 10.30 and Ralph brought us home. he's taking us again tonight - I'm going down at 6.30 to have supper at their flat. I've always wanted to see it!!
Grannie has offered to embroider an initial on my 4 towels - can I have an FH or must it be only F? She wondered if you could make up a fairly simple monogram for them. It'll be the most exciting thing I've had done yet.
How have the two Reunions gone? Lots of people? - and are you dead tired?
I'm simply longing to have your photograph by my bed - but I can't part with the other so I think I'll have to have them both.
Olsson has gone to enquire about that record for me - perhaps we'll have it for the weekend.
I love you more than anything else in the world - my darling -
Think of me a lot
Your own
Mary Pleasant
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