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  • Walter E. Dandy Letter 03/01/1941

    In 24 hours a real heat has been forecast. And a nice sunny day was all too enticing. I feel already like the little puppies that walked after one day of sunshine. I haven’t heard yet about my three invalids but am assuming that absence of news means that all is well.

    This is a lovely spot, a fine new house built on the water. What two years have done to the vegetation is remarkable. Then, it was just a bare sand yard. Now grass like a thick carpet - the most perfectly green lawn you could imagine and all kinds of flowers and fruit-bearing trees.

    I couldn’t get a golf game yesterday so I just sat in the sun and read and dozed and finally went to sleep.

    I met J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI man, here before dinner and then had dinner with him and his associates at the Everglades Hotel. I have long admired his work in tracing kidnappers and other criminals - it’s the one great product of this country’s past 20 years and absolutely without politics. For that reason, it doesn’t sit well with the President and Congress. He is a great fellow and gave me an invitation to bring the kiddies to Washington and see the workings. He was so appreciative of my operation on his man Lackey - the bullets in the spine that Walter saw.

    It’s a little cold today - 40 - but sunny and bright. Am playing golf this afternoon, tomorrow and Monday with a Mr. Swift. Fishing Tuesday and to Ponte Vedra Wednesday. Saw Dr. Young yesterday. Am anxiously awaiting news from you and hope you can tell me that all is well and the angel is back at school. Mrs. Otto is a lovely person and Tom is a great host, though I do feel a little guilty in accepting so much.

    Play golf with Bob Thomas tomorrow. Wish you could be here; also the angel.

    Love and kisses to all,

    Daddy x x x x x

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