 These are the courtship letters that the Johnson's wrote to each other while they were courting in the fall of 1934. What would be the typical salutation? My dearest London oak well, and I think she says dearest darling, I know darling she uses a lot. And you see he says dear bird but he also says my dearest, but I only remember this being used this one time. You notice she says after that this sounds like a sermon. One of the interesting things is that he pleads over and over for more letters and she begins by saying that she doesn't think they need to write every day but before it's over she's writing every day just about and sometimes twice a day. He talks about the day going by without getting a letter from her and how misreported he is. The personality, we all associate with Lyndon Johnson and with Ladybird Johnson comes through in these very early letters. He comes across as a person who's very intergetic, he's impatient, he is passionate about doing his job, passionate about helping people and that all comes across very clearly in the letters. Mrs. Johnson is more cautious about getting married and he wants to get married right away, but also in her letters she talks a lot about nature and about flowers and landscaping their family home. Do you see this interest that she had in beautification which came through so clearly when she was first lady? It began way back when she was a very young woman. Do you think this is special? Today people just maybe email each other on Facebook or something like that and we wouldn't have these documents. It was a different time and clearly it's wonderful to have these letters now and be able to go back and read them and see that time when people wrote letters instead of talking on the phone or had short little exchanges.