O'KEEFFE/STIEGLITZ LETTERS O'Keeffe, Georgia 1938, July-Oct. Late July or early Aug. 1938 We are so pleased with the hope of seeing you soon Do try to come right up I have vaguely planned to start for the Ranch this coming Tuesday Alfreds nurse and a friend are coming on Monday. He is very well - can't walk as he did formerly but has improved very much - I don't even think of him as ill any more - am just a bit careful of him. I wonder if you received the telegram - we look forward oh there is no word for it Words are so inadiquit for special kinds of feelings - [G] Aug 1938 Telephones the Shelton twice Friday and couldn't get you so sent a wire saying I am leaving here on Tuesday 3:15 P.M. Standard Time - I hope you can come up before then. The train trip is absurdly long for the distance - you can leave N. Y - 11:15 P.MM. and arrive here 9:15 A.M. - Standard Time. There is a train out of here at 9:30 A.M. and one at 3:15 P.M - Ive had a lame left arm that I've been nursing here - it sin't very good but I am going crazy sitting around here - It is time to go. I think my arm will be alright when I get to work and forget it. I would like to wait for you if you do not come before Tuesday but I think I can not There is no phone service up here now - Maybe you could fly to Saratoga - that is 30 miles away I wish so much to see you G. Oct. 1, 1938 Oct/38 GHOST RANCH ABIQUIU, New Mexico Telegraph: Espanola, N. M. Henwar! I’ve been in California -- the High Country and the sea -- Saw your house -- Peggie and Gerald and the two children -- It was lovely -- Thank you -- Here it is cooler again -- windy days -- coyotes bawling on the hills - nights -- Ill be back this month -- and hope to be seeing you. The [Packs?] away -- very quiet here -- nice -- sort of alone and still My love to you. G. Oct. 10, 1939 [*OCT 10/38*] I spent a couple of hours with Marie a few days ago - She was alone - it was raining - As I see her a woman who seems more and more to flower - and still has some thing like a bewildered child about her. She asked about you quite eagerly - I told her what you had told me in the spring - - She is living in the new house in the orchard - 2 rooms [bath?] and porch - really lovely - rich as things always are about her. She has written a novel -- I did not ask to read it -- do not feel like reading He is East -- had gone the day before Seeing here I felt warmly toward her as I always have Saw Paul the same day. unexpectedly in Espanola -- He too asked about you -- He has rented his house and moved to Homer [Bosers?] house for the winter I went over the Cumbres Pass today because it was white with snow -- The aspens not quite gone -- It was good -- The high places are so clean -- all so alive -- sun very warm Marie was so interested in asking about you -- so eager -- I thought you would like to know Always Georgia 1938 It is good to hear from you -- and that your work is going well I look forward to seeing it -- and you -- I am busy with the [?] being here isn't as good as where I came from -- I look forward to being there again -- Fondly G. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.