10/2/1959 An introduction & a postscript

The Virgin and Child with
St Anne & St John the Baptist
- Leonardo da Vinci

To M M

She told me that her name was Marianne
And wondered why I smiled
To see your her beauty unified
In one sweet name that meant
So much to me.

For Mary is Our Lady fair
All clothed with the sun,
and purest Anne her mother, she
Who was as tender as the Son Child
Her daughter bore.

10/2/1959

And then there was a separate postscript...

I wrote a letter to you yesterday... and tore it up! I dare not write, I find, just yet  for it would only be a love letter... and you would not wish for such a one from me!