8/11/43: Excited, who’s excited?  Not me, oh no.  Darling, - what do you think; - I have just got the most wonderful place for us.  Of all the thousands of apartments & homes in Denver, I have been lucky in finding the one which I very likely would have chosen if I’d had a complete choice.  It is in the home of a Mrs. Mary Lee Read, & the enclosed folder tells you who she is.  Don’t lose it, as it’s my receipt for a payment on the rent.  It is a lovely home and she is a lovely person.  She took me in just like a son when I got down to talk to her.  She has a two room apartment with bath, one room a nice big room, the other a large screened & windowed porch on the “away from the street side” of the house, where there is a large double bed in it, in case you would like to lie down in there, afternoons, or something.  The porch will make a fine sleeping place as it’s on the 2nd floor.  And she was so very pleased that I happened to get her address from Special Services, since we both (you & I) like music so much.  She has one other boarder, also an organist – a 19 year old fellow who has just been discharged from the Navy due to loss of health.  He was in the Casablanca battle.  Now she has got him a job playing in a Denver restaurant.  She has a Steinway grand piano in her living room, & you and I are to consider it as our own.  She wants you to feel at ease to come down there & “visit” with her, & when she is out we can have guests in her living room.  She has invited me to a musicale at a friend’s house on Saturday night.  Then after you are here, she will give a party for us, so she says.  She is very much “in the swim” here in Denver, & I know you will enjoy being here all the more because of the nice place. 

 

Oh yes, besides the apartment, for $5.00 more a month, we can have full kitchen privileges – breakfasts & all you want to cook!!  Pantry, refrigerator, etc., & I’m sure there’s a place for you to do washing you want.  The house is old fashioned, large, & in a nice residential section.  Bathroom is large, the old-fashioned kind.  Hot water from a hot water heater 24 hours a day.  The present occupants will be out on Sunday so I’ll bring my things in Monday nite, & get things set for you for Tuesday AM.  I’ll sleep there Monday nite, & will have the love-birds singing, soft music playing, & all the rest when you get there.  Oh, it is going to be wonderful.  And I didn’t have to pay rent at all in advance.  It’ll be $40 a month, plus the 5$ for kitchen if we want it.  It is 11 blocks from town, easy bus reach, & only a few minutes’ walk.  Also easy bus & trolley for me out here to the field.  I’m so happy I could shout.

 

     This is the address:

                        c/o/ Mrs. Mary Lee Read,

                        118 E. 8th Ave.

                        Denver, Colo.

 

The telephone is Tabor 7757.  This will be our mailing address, beginning 1 week today.  Just think, - a week from this very minute you & I will be living in our first home together.