August 3, 1956

You probably won't be able to reach me by
return mail so if you write to
Delhi Ont c//o Burns Foster I will
get it up to Aug 15th
Your last letter took 4 days.
I leave here Mon Aug 10,

305 Waverly Hall
Syracuse 10 N.Y. U.S.A.
August 3, 1956

Greetings Janet;

I received your letter half an hour ago and, according to you, as it takes a longer time span for a letter to cross the continent from east to west there is hardly enough time to get this to you, unless we get good communications, before you head off on your adventure.

This has been a bad week for me.  I have been seriously awaiting 2 letters and yours in particular and of them have arrived and both let me down from an anticipation that I have been building up.

The first letter was from Doug Johnston in Montreal.  He had promised to take his wife to the Maine coast on the weekend and I wanted to see him and had made all the necessary arrangements with his wife and children and employer.  I may decide to take a longer trip and end up in Maine myself for a day but the car has been behaving very badly and none of the local garages can fix it so I don't know whether to chance it. I think I may go straight across Niagara and up to Toronto and dicker with an automobile outfit on a new car.

The second letter was the one I received from you three quarters of an hour ago and you say your trip through the North is on.  I had almost hoped you would come east and meet me here as you thought you might do in your previous letter.

Do you know why?  Turn over the page and see if you can guess.

You need someone to look after you and I would like to volunteer my services in the capacity of your husband.  If you are interested in this matter, the necessary documents can be procured and plans for a suitable ceremony can be arranged at your convenience.

I wrote a much more flowery proposal a week ago and almost made it to the post box but I hesitated when you didn't answer my last letter. I wanted to know just a little more surely in my own mind that I was on the right track at last and I think now that I was right in waiting.

I am not quite sure how long it will take me to get to Vancouver. You say you will probably get there about August the 19th. I doubt if I can make it before about the 22 or 23 according to the stopovers I had planned at Delhi and Biggar.  Where can I contact you after the start of your voyage?  In Vancouver at Slights?

You decide what you want to do. I am agreeable to almost anything you might suggest.

Thank you for your faith in whatever is in me that keeps me from degenerating into nothing.  I needed some encouragement and knowing my weaknesses will need a lot more in the future probably.

The time has come my dear to get this in the mail so I will put it in an envelope and wish it a safe and rapid journey.

Love,

George