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Enough, too much-but it is much on my mind. The Patrick Henry League has been getting more response than I expected, much less than is enough to be effective. But we shall persevere.
MISCELLANEOUS
May 15, 1963: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
Thanks for that full house of checks. Gi
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July 5, 1963: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
...and it has slowed up my letter writing; I owe letters to everybody and am just barely managing to answer urgent business mail and send off checks for bills. Yesterday I celebrated the Fourth of July by bringing Gi
Since she is right-handed to the point that she can hardly hold a fork with her left hand, since her right hand is useless until it heals, and since I am a slow and inefficient housewife, not too much is getting done around here that does not simply have to be done at once-especially as I continue to try to get in as many hours of mechanical work as possible. The Heinlein Water Works is finished to the point where it operates, but I still have endless masonry and carpentry jobs to do before it will be utterly safe from flash floods and landscaped so that it does not look like an abandoned slum-clearance project.
September 3, 1963: Robert A. Heinlein to Peggy Blassingame
I won't send him [Lurton] flowers; his doctor has almost certainly forbidden roughage. I would like to mail him a blonde, but there is some silly regulation about livestock. I suppose the best thing for him to do is to get out of that ulcer-making business. (I would go crazy in it.) But when Count does retire, I, and almost certainly a lot of others, will perforce retire, too.
It might do him some good to come out here and fish for a month-there aren't enough fish in Colorado streams to bother anybody.
In the meantime, he should avoid newspapers, authors, publishers, and editors.
August 23, 1964: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
[Concerning the arrival of a letter addressed to ' 'Robert A. Heinlein, United States of America."]
The empty envelope herein is for your amusement...It was delivered with no delay at all, being postmarked the 9th and reaching me on the llth, via surface mail. It need not be returned.
POLITICS
June 15, 1964: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
I am still getting no professional writing done and our household continues to be stirred up night and day by politics. I had intended to take no real part in this campaign other than donation of money, while Gi
EDITOR'S NOTE The preceding fall I had become much taken with politics-a group of us had started a "Gold for Gold-water " campaign. We set up a Colorado Springs headquarters in a donated storefront, and gathered together campaign literature, buttons, and all the trappings.
Six of us agreed to take one day a week at the headquarters, and there were all sorts of meetings and speeches to be given. Robert gave his blessing to my endeavors and I was allowed to spend as much money as I thought we could afford.
He accompanied me to political di
The telephone rang constantly, and he could get no copy written. We were fully involved in an already lost campaign. Eventually we recognized that, and made plans to leave for South America after voting on Election Day.
October 2, 1964: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
We still miss Shamrock but her little golden tomkitten is healthy and full of beans. Now I must run, get dressed, and rush to still another political di
STUFFED OWL
April 15, 1967: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
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So she gave me one. The cliche" dates back to my childhood. Do you remember Hairbreadth Harry, the Beauteous Belinda, and Rudolph Rassendyl the Villyun? Well, one Christmas about forty years ago Belinda gave Harry a smoking jacket that fitted him like socks on a rooster, and he gave her a stuffed owl-to which she said glumly: "Just what IVe always needed."
So now I have just what I've always needed, and the stuffed owl (now named "Pallas Athena") is perched facing me just beyond my typewriter.
READER
December 10, 1968: Lurton Blassingame to Robert A. Heinlein
...However, not all people love you. I had a call this morning from a frantic mother in Mi