The Collected Crane Archives: Hart Crane

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charm that emanates from a gain in happiness and a victory are stubborn and harsh memories. You don't know how happy it makes me! You seem to become more and more your essential self. It takes someone's real affections[?] to do that for you -- to permit the [enditers?], at any rate, for such a rejuvenation of the spirit -- and you know how much I have been hoping that you could do [wishing or writing?] come in your way to keep you from responding so completely to your happiness. I know you are quite in love, so you need not father to spoil it all by keeping on saying that you are afraid that you are "going to." Most women never know when they are really in love anyway -- but you can't fool me any longer about yourself. Madame, because I'm too delighted to be able to encourage you in this happy direction.

O I must tell you that Gotham has suddenly fallen on a very [?] job. It's a joke -- his work, I mean, -- but it pays to be the managing editor of a magazine that circulates to 160,000 every month. You have probably seen "Psychology" on the racks in drug and book stores. It's started in only last week. His new income combined with Lisa's out to make their living almost luxurious.

Emil[?] left last Saturday for another long trip to S. America and back. His father's death and the shock of first knowing about it at the pier almost transformed him all the which he was here. It was something of a strain on me, also, to be with such an unhappy man and to be able to do so little.

I am going to look Elizabeth Smith very soon. Har[?] meant to for some time, but Sue, Gorham and others take up so much of the little time that it's been a pleasure to write you like this, -- for once in the daylight [?] the sense of [?]ing so.

Love,
Hart

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