Friday

 

Cara, Dear:

            We are sailing Sunday. It’s two days sooner than we expected.

            Tomorrow I will have my first and only day off and I have a lot of things to do. Get teeth pulled, etc.

            I wish I had more time to write this letter but if I had a year I could do no better so please separate the two things.

            Any money that I offer you has no strings. So please take it and use it and use it as you need it.

            Now honey I am going to tell you things as I think. I know it will be a jumble. Do the best you can with it.

            If I have time, I am going to send my bag to you with my suit and top coat. Please have them cleaned and ready for me when I get back.

            They are rushing us so they must need our cargo someplace. Our deck load is all Pilings. So they must be going to build a dock somewhere.

            This is the second big adventure Cara, you were the first. The rest of the things I have seen do not count.

            Your letter did not come in time so I did not know what to do so I did this.

            I opened a joint account at the

            Bank of America

                        Market Geary Brauce

                                    S.F.Calif.

            They will write to you and give you all the details. They will receive $50 a month on the 25th of each month and you are authorized to check against it. Use the $200 to take care of Brink, your shoes, the stuff from Maples, etc. and if you get in a spot use the rest but let me know if you do.

            If you do not hear from the bank in two weeks write them & ask why.

            If I send the bag there is a lighter for you and the ring and also my keys in a Cigarette Carton.

            Now Cara this has no connection with the rest. If I am to live alone in the future I have found the place where I am going to live but my hope is that when I come back to Seattle you will be ready to share your house with me. However I will not ask you (I am writing this now so you will have time to think about it and a censor will not read it.)

            When I get back to Seattle I am either going to move in with you or pick up my stuff and leave. Cara, this is not a threat. But it has to be. I think it is crazy for the combination of Ray & Cara to be broken up. Yet if that is the way you want it, I am ready to yield.

            Believe me Cara you are a part of me that I can never get over. Love is a small thing, you are part of my mind, yet I can & will half live again as I did in Chicago.

 

                        Love                                       

Ray