The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder by Thornton Wilder

Author:Thornton Wilder [Wilder, Robin G. and Bryer, Jackson R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-06-204601-7
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2008-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

As from: 50 Deepwood Drive

New Haven. Conn.

Thanksgiving Day

<November 26> 1942

Los Angeles.

Dear Robert Frost:

Had it been possible you would indeed have received some tickets for the opening of the play.88 The reasons why it was impossible would make a long and complicated story, briefly: on the 15th I was in California; on the 16th I was on Long Island (on a military order that had no connection with the play); your telegram of the 17th was forwarded to the wrong address, and was received on the 18th when all the tickets had been disposed of. I did not go to the opening and left the next day for Spokane, Washington. As the Bible says: When they say unto a Centurion, go; he goeth.

But far more interesting to me than your seeing the play, would have been the chance of me seeing you. My days are spent in, on and about khaki. I’m starved for wider views.

But the work is fascinating. Until that order of the 15th I have been (after months of training) Intelligence Officer of the 328th Fighter Group, Hamilton Field, California; being knit into three squadrons of pursuit pilots being “activated” for combat duty. That Order pulled me out of that and put me on a committee that is preparing a certain Air Force document that requires our visiting many of the Fields in the country. Whether I go back to my Group after this 60 days of Detached Service, I don’t know. I hope so.

I look forward to our next walk and talk, cher maître

Most sincerely

Thornton.

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