206 Wheeler
Hanover, NH

7 January 1947

Dear Monny,

No, not in Jamaica yet, and with whom should I honeymoon, but never
doubt I remember what you told me last October, and I know you are
quite right too, and you very often indeed are. It's love it's love
that makes the world go 'round, but hard to come by I think sometimes.

I can imagine what you're up to, and I could see of course when I went
to Nirvana on 53rd Street, one of the few places in the world where
I feel both happy and at ease, at least one of the places where most so.
The Moore show is so splendid, music everywhere one looks, a lullaby.
What a smart little man. And upstairs, downstairs, anywhere you
wander, a real nice place all right. Enjoyed the little arch. show
so much. Wish I'd been able to go more than once to Moore, for now it
be will for another slightly radiant memory, like the Tchelitchew
show and the Airways and that jungle job a while back.

Glen looked very handsome, charmingly wicked in that plushy old dump,
felt happy for seeing him after I'd left him. I never seemed to be
where I could phone those next two days without someone listening,
which often seems wrong to me, or without going out to a drugstore.
Expected to visit you at 410 and leave the Fuller book, which I finally
mailed. I might say I've kept it not out of indolence but to re-add
it devotedly after a spell, and I estimated that you weren't planning
or waiting to read it. I handled it with clean hands, learned a lot
from it (which to my joy I knew - confirmations so often!) and am
obliged to you for your goodness in lending it.

Now Monny, one of the problems about friendship is that patterns and channels are established so early, one must be very careful to delicately establish them, and often they ought to shift to the other foot, go into second, dig a little to one side. At the outset I want to say that you must know how I think of you and feel about you, how prodigiously rich for me our friendship has been, how affected I am by you, what respect and affection I have for you. I want to say at the outset that I am desirous of your esteem and want you to want to be friends with me too, and I hope enduringly.

Now one aspect of all this has been that you have heaped on me all sorts
of goodnesses, ideas, and opportunities and stimulations, and entertain-
ments and directions, and also all sorts of objects, drawings and a
stack of books that warm me just to think of. Well, I hope you aren't
embarrassed by it now, but you can see I'm talking about your giving me
another present this Christmas when I was in affect out of the world,
and what I want to say is that I would rather you were just gently
disposed toward me, and would wait for me to come over of this distance,
not judge too harshly what seemed the lack of control of last summer,
and consider me loyal and all that. As for giving me a drawing, why,
this little room is filled with extraordinary things, (which in their
way could have enriched Stone-blossom for that matter,) things so well
picked and meaningful to me that I expect they'll be with me in varying
mixtures wherever I live right down the years. The cup I drink from,
the Aesop, Commonplace, Calendar just there on the desk, the Miro &
Three Musicians on the wall, the music book of use in a class for study,
then Three Young Rats I've been recently enjoying after getting it &
other books from 229 E 48th, the Spirits Trio, the bottle of Vetiver,
and so on and on. Well, goodnight now, Monny, more soon, spell is broken

206 Wheeler
Hanover, NH

13 January 1947

Dear Monny,

Much obliged for the friendly letter....Yes, I saw Lady W. the day
Cecil Beaton sailed I believe....Yes, you are patient, which is ag
good deal tied up with being wise....I think the notion of a Mother
goose by Mr. Steinberg absolutely first-rate - hope it goes through
well and soon. I shall give my godchild one right off the bat.....
I've seen neither of the big new books, but must go over the Carpenter
Art Library and get caught up. Especially with the Rewald I should
think.

Bislike people who apologise for their typing but something is cartainly
wrong tonight. Just in from soup downtown. Cold fingers. Cold as a
titche's bit up here anyway. I mean a titche's wit.

The young man behind the beautiful legs of a boy I don't know (but as I
remember the legs were all that was there) is named Hal Mohrmann, who
works as information clerk at the PCA Airlines Terminal Annex I believe.
I know him only by virtue of taking pictures of him one day at the
beach, and because he writes all the time asking for prints, which of
course I couldn't order from anywhere. Made him a few at Reading Farris.
As I recall a nice sort of boy, very fine form to him.

Yes I love Figaro. This course, Music 1, is the only rewarding one this
term, and life can certainly be beautiful in Music One if me tell you.
I've borrowed Prof. Packard's alto recorder, since music seems to be an
irresistibly enlarging source of enjoyment as the years come along; but
it sounds, alas, only like an ocarina despite the grain of the cocabola
wood and the baroque connotations of it that first made me like it.
Also you can't do anything with it that I can't do with a whistle. Or
one can't I mean. So I guess I will not go to Shirmer to get one.
Although were I thinking of getting that beachcomber month in the sun
that obsesses me these brittle slight dilute winter days, it would be a
companiable thing to have in sand dunes.

At my conference this coming Thursday with Prof. P I mean to tell him
it looks very unlikely that I shall stay for the March-June spring term,
as indeed it does. The Principle of Diminishing Utility applies too well
to a fourth term at Dartmouth, for me, anyway, now that I'm going into
Major courses that are better taught elsewhere. The problem that is with
me every minute is, of course, what to do? I should like to be poised
and pretend I know just what's to be done but I don't. Go abroad in
April with my remaining term's funds? Study? In Paris? Aausanne? Geneva?
The month in the sun of course cannot be consummated until late spring,
in Jamaica or Venice or Ocean Beach or the Virgins or wherever. I will
be ready to look for a job anytime after the tan; just now I think of
looking elsewhere than in NYC. I've considered trying to find a place
I can fill in the movie industry, production end, which has always inter-
ested me greatly. Well. The Society of Ind. Designers lists many places
where I could continue the training I've started here, and at vastly
cheaper considerations too - but all schools are pushed too full now.
There are several things in the world I want passionately (I use the
word, remembering how you used it) to do, and which incidentally are
somewhat related to the production of income - painting again, from
where I left off in 1941, and trying some sculpture which I've never
done - and I keep thinking of the trip to Majorca P & J made. I wish

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Hanover NH

16 April 1947

Dear Glen -

A quick line: I've written to Liberty asking them to send to 410 the Bach Goldberg Variations played by Wanda Aandowska. Of course people always tend to send things they like themselves; corollary - only people with related like-clusters are apt to be very happy in their giving about. I have this album and it has given me more pleasure than any of the dozen-odd albums I now have painstakingly chosen. I adore it.

I do hope you and Monie will like it too. The Scarlatti I can't send with such a personal recommendation since I don't know it, have only played it a little at the Gramophone Shop, and I hope you will forgive me for choosing the Landowska.

You must send the enclosed card directly, stating whether you want
drop or manual - I can't decide which you'd prefer. Also I've asked
them to deliver it to 410 - if you want it shipped to Stone-blossom you
must state on the card too, altho they will probably recommend you
take it out yourself.

I am most grateful for the jacket, have been wearing it every day, not
having another - although today we've had a snow & sleet storm, every-
thing is white-wet and cold; spring seems far off in this distant
northern level.

Must write another line to Monie - hard to describe how tight the
schedule is up here, so that every minute seems to be committed. I
think, assignments (life and death) first, letters later and then
even the assignment are never quite caught up.

Rejoice in my courses. Life is only 70% lived now, but there is the
sun and summer and all manner of releases to be anticipated. When I
shall see you, Glen? I look forward to it.

"Sanstone"
South Reading
Veront

3 July 1947

Dear Mnie,

This morning in my PO Box in Felchville I found your June 25
letter, which stirred in this waiting heart an immense
response.

Do I know an energetic young designer? I know me. I am. Do I
know a little about draughting and lettering? Dam right, I do.
But now I remember your saying at 410 the other day something
about this same job - saying that you were baking em on on a
consultant basis I think, on one-job stands.

Well,

Today I washed all winter's dirty dishes in the stream, which
was too cold for anything much all winter. Then with crowbar
and gloves I attacked my rebumbent barn, a wilted eyesore at the
road's edge. Beat hell out of myself on the barn. Big job.
But I get out of it a value increment, tidiness, muscles, and
kindling wood. Then, pooped, I jacked up the dejected catenary
of my long 50-foot front porch, built new stone foundations under
it. Then back to the stream in golden long light, to wash myself
behind a blackberry bluff in white blossom. Made a big bowl of
non-restricted salad for dinner, played Das Lied von der Erde on
the wind-up, read an old WW, gingerly bent the Diamond gaslamp
by which I write to you, started writing to you.

Tomorrow my Nan arrives and that will be that.

Tonight I shall go upstairs with my little candle, boom, and
lie in my favorite bedroom (the yellow-green room to be) to watch
the moonlight and listen to the water over the rocks.

I am very eager to hear from Professor Packard whether there is
any chance of a fellowship being revived, and in general to make
a decision about when and how to finish school. But this summer,
no matter how the details arrange themselves, I will be able to
keep things in a solid upward spiral, I know. Last year was so sad:
I guess I was, as they say, by the balls, and now I am beginning to
feel that I am not, making it easy to be not....Well, to Hanover
Monday, and there I hope news.

My golly you looked luminescent the other day. As though you had
come out of either an ecstasy or a hot shower.

Thank you for the Klee which I found on continued examination I
am nuts about. Thank you for the book too which I must read again.

Still ist mein herz und harret seiner stunde.

Keep up the good work. KUTW. Will check your directly I get back,
probably about the 15th.

Reading Vermont
206 Wheelers Hall
Hanson
N.H.

M. Monroe Wheeler
410 Park Avenue
New York City (22)

Monday evening, 14 July 1947

Dear Monie,

I do not have much of the college stuff done at Hanover; here is what
can be found in my papers, and I shall mail Wednesday (when I go to
a conference with Professor Packard) my term paper in Philosophy, done
just a month or so ago, which I left with Phil Wheelwright.

The fact is, I haven't done much writing; when I first hit Dartmouth,
required papers were impossibly affected, very embarrassing to re-read.
I hope I've got away a little from such, but even so I don't think
usuing words will ever come as naturally to me as drawing, color, etc.

The newspaper clippings are several of a series, all I have now. They
went fast, just before deadline usually, were meant to be passably
readable for the Dartmouth Philistines, aren't very high-level and that's
a fact. "Easel Does It" was not my title, as you can guess.

Must drive this into Felchville directly to make the Springfield
coach.

Reading
Vermont
Tuesday 15 July 1947

Dear Monie,

It was this morning that I spoke with you by telephone, this
morning which brought me your Sunday note advising me of the
urgency of acting upon the chance of getting the UNESCO job.
It is a great pity that our communications have been so sluggish,
but I must take much of the blame. I did not until today realize
how desirable the position would be. As for my ability to fill
it, and the chances of my getting it, why, I must consider that
you have already judged these things, and accept your advice with
faith. As for making an effort now, I am privileged to: am a good
worker when I get accelerating.

I called you Tuesday night, as I said, then delayed writing to
you after I received your letter Wednesday, thinking no expres-
sion was needed until the fifteenth. Also, my typewriter has re-
quired my inexpert attention; it is very old and is only partially
fixed even now. I regret that my call to you last night, started
a little before seven, did not get through until I had missed you;
I spent most of the early evening trying to get the call completed,
in my neighbor's house, reading some things Mr. Fuller has sent to
me while I waited.

I enclose a good deal of various information about my record and
work. Ought it have been sent to the Museum? I shall hope it
gets to you at 410 with the morning mail before you leave for
work, and will drive in to Felchville shortly with it to catch
the afternoon stage. Airmail unfortunately does not help getting
things from these back hills to NYC because it is such a ways to
through air routes; so I am told at the PO at any rate.

As for special experience of printing processes that is specific
enough to be put into a chronology, alas, there is very little.
In high school I had a little press, printed small magazines for
several years. At the Franklin School 1938-41 we had a good ground-
ing in typography in relation to advertising and so on. From
1943 to 1945 I was active when I had a chance to be working with
our several agencies (JWT, Mathes, etc.) on SKOL and SKAT promo-
tion and campaigns; this often took me downtown to a printing
house (Walker Engraving, was it? on 25th & Lexington) in order to
check engravings and colors. I took a course with Ray Nash at
college last winter in The Art of the Book which incorporated a
survey of the graphic arts and processes, but Nash was such a
damp blanket, so dull and intolerant of anything later than
Dwiggins, that I did not work as hard in the course as I should
have.

Despite all this, I can learn things with some facility and I
like to work hard at what job I am doing; perhaps as you suggest
I could encompass a great deal of fast background learning. As for
French, I expect it would come out like beer from a tapped keg once

it got under way. I was surprised at college, after forgetting
in eight years what I'd learned in high school, at the rapidity
with which fluency came, went into French 7 and then 12 instead
of 5. I believe Professor Ramon Guthrie would give me a big boost
on this French question: he called me in last winter to ask me
to help him prove a point he'd been shooting for - that credit
ought to be given for a course if an examination can be passed
well, even thought the course is not actually taken and work
is done on the student's own time...I had no help in pronunciation
at college - but that could be corrected.

As for these enclosures, I can not guess how to organize them for
you because I do not know how they ought to be submitted or to
whom. I do not like to think of your taking time to work over them
in general, schooling grades and psychological tests (which seem
to be used and considered more and more days in hiring)
are on separate sheets which can be used as they are.

If when you glance through all this you feel it will be hard to
extract what you need from it, wire me and I could in a pinch
manage to pack and get down there at a day's notice. If you wire
me at this address the message gets put in my PO box - I didn't
get your Sunday wire until 4:30 Monday when the Windsor mail
came in: if you send it to me/c/o Mrs. Basil Matthews, South
Reading, it will go to my neighbor and reach me promptly, however.

The only employment not mentioned in the enclosed memo carbon
would be: 1) Lord & Taylor, Window Display, Designer under Dana
O'Clare: summer 1941.

2) The "Summer camp" work was theatre design for a small
Adirondacks theatre, The Oneida Playhouse; 2 summers,
1939 and 1940.

First employed by Skol Company October 1942. Worked steadily
under contract for that company after return from sea from March
1943 through November 1946, as Production Engineer (Junior), in
Production Development.

Well, dear Monie, I hope this will serve as a starter. I shall
bring with me when I come down Saturday what photographs and
clippings and work seems to be suitable for work-getting.

I hope staying a few extra days has not lost any opportunity for
me. It is such a tiresome and expensive trip up here that it
seemed prudent, once here and things repairing well, to continue
the inertia a little longer. It is such a way to see my place
come clean, even though slowly. There is no doubt, it is a mighty
fine house and I did a very sensible thing to buy it. It would
be fun to stay here a whole summer and make it really show what
its mettle is, and of course any work done on it increases my
pride in it and also its selling and rental value by the square;
it's a constructive way to putter.

Well, Nan is in the morning-room taking a sponge-bath, and in
a few minutes we are to leave for the post office, and follow on
to Hurricane Hill after that to have tea with the Marvels. Then
up at six tomorrow; Nan to the 8:45 train and I on to see Packard.
Then the last two days to tie up all loose ends and clean up for
an indefinite vacancy here. Many thanks, much love, ♡ Bieł

Phone: Felchville
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