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My darling Cristina,

I have just received your sweet letter. I must tell you right away that I have already arranged everything so as to be able to leave on the morning of Sunday 20th and God willing I shall arrive in Rome in the evening of Monday 21st. How happy I am! I have always loved our beautiful country but since I discovered you and all that you are I do not think that even Moses could have longed for the Promised Land as much as I long to see Trinità dei Monti, Piazza di Spagna and Via Condotti.

How sweet you are to write to me so often but as you know I have been sure for a long time that you are an Angel.

I still have many days of hard work ahead of me before I can leave. The problems with the shareholders are on the way to being settled and it seems that they will follow my advice. On the 15th I have to preside over an important meeting where everything will be decided and from then on I will no longer have to stay on here as in the past.

These two and a half months (which have been like two and a half years!) away from you must never be repeated.

Just now I am in the middle of the tests with far-off Australia which will end, if all goes well, on the 14th. Tonight I am going to have to stay up very late because we are testing the simultaneous telegraphy and telephony.

With the Lord’s help I am learning little by little how to transmit these waves right across the world over a distance which is twelve times greater than that which separates London from Rome (I was going to say me from you but there is no longer any distance which really separates us. Our Love is even more wonderful than the Radio!).

To reach Australia these Radio waves have to cross the whole of Europe, Mesopotamia, Persia, India and Polinesia, overcoming all the obstacles between them and vanquishing storms and all the hostile forces of nature.

The more I work with the forces of Nature and sense the Divine good-will towards mankind the more I am brought into contact with the great truth: that everything is ordered by the Lord and Giver of Life and this so-called science I work with is just an expression of the Supreme Will which wants to put human beings in contact with each other to help them improve and have a greater mutual understanding.

In this too God has sent you to inspire me to do greater and greater things. You wrote to me about Brazil and our Government’s offer to me. I shall only go if I can go there after the blessed day of our marriage; and only if you want to go. As you say, it might be a good idea for our honeymoon which in any case will never end for us. How wonderful it will be to show you the World and to show you to the World!

In the next few days I may not be able to write to you much because I still have so many things to do but remember that if I am working a bit too much now it is so that later I can dedicate myself to you completely because I belong to you and to you alone. The work I will do in the future and which you can order will all be done to please you, my Queen.

All I want to do for the rest of my life is to be worthy of you, my darling Angel; I will also try to deserve the pride you feel in a Wizard who belongs to you and who wants to live just for you.

The immense love that you have inspired would be quite inconceivable for many people; but not for you--you understand it! You know, don’t you? You feel it!

Your Guglielmo