For Carlotta, on our 12th Wedding Anniversary

Dearest:

I give you the original script of this play of old
sorrow, written in tears and blood. A sadly inappropriate
gift, it would seem, for a day celebrating happiness. But
you will understand. I mean it as a tribute to your
love and tenderness which gave me the faith in love
that enabled me to face my dead at last and write
this play - write it with deep pity and understanding
and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.

These twelve years, Beloved One, have been a
Journey Into Light - into love. You know my gratitude.
And my love!

Gene

Tao House

July 22nd 1941.