Letter, Lady Bird Taylor to Lyndon Johnson, 9/26/1934?

Specific Item Type:

Correspondence

Type:

Text

Format:

Paper

Identifier:

pp-ctjandlbj-letters-ctj-9-26-34

Date:

1934-09-26

Date Note:

Precise date uncertain: extrapolated here by LBJ Library archives staff

Time Period:

Pre-Presidential (Before Nov. 22, 1963)

Transcript:

[September 26, 1934 ?]
Wednesday
Darling -
Your letter yesterday sort of put me on the spot, didn’t it, dear? All I can say, in absolute honesty, is--I love you, I don’t know how everlastingly I love you,--so I can’t answer you yet. And I’m coming to see you in January. Try and stop me! It’s the chief thing in the world I’m looking forward to…what made you say you didn’t think Gene and I would not really get there?
Lyndon, tell me more
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about this going in Owen D. Young’s office. In what capacity, dear? As public relations man? It sounds swell to me. Was that what Mr. Adams wanted to talk about this time?
I should say you are taking a hard course, Lyndon. Contracts was always the “piece de resistance” down the hill in Austin, and I’ve heard an awful lot about how hard Torts was too. Bless your heart--is it hard to stick to it?
Lyndon, when you said “After the first semester I may be in New York” did you mean
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Mr. Adams and the General Electric deal? And what was that about possibly being in Austin? Law school? Oh, I do hope you don’t go with the University of Houston!--Though I ought not to say that, ‘cause I don’t know enough about your offer there--and what you think of it.
I enjoyed hearing about you walking through the parks and up past the White House…I’ve walked in just those places…Dear, do you ever ride out along the Potomac toward Mount Vernon? I love it out there.
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--I think the Potomac is the most aristocratic river I’ve ever seen.
Now I appreciate how you felt when you used to drive that truck, Lyndon! Because yesterday I had to take some big chairs to Marshall to be upholstered so I borrowed Dorris and Hugh’s truck and out I put! It made a noise like tin cans, full of rocks, falling downstairs, and dust came up through the floor, and it hadn’t any brakes or horn! It was quite an adventure--I felt as brave as Columbus! But I got everything done.

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That was certainly good-looking paper you wrote me on. I surely am glad someone was ingenious enough to put our Texas cotton to some new use.
Dear, I am going to write you every day it looks like--or nearly! Unfortunately, I can talk much better than I can write…So many times I wish you were close enough for me to talk to you. I think of so much to say that eludes the written words. Tomoro, Lyndon, I shall put those pictures in my letter. For today, goodbye,--and a hundred kisses.
Devotely, Bird