Huxley spent a couple of months in Palm Desert in a motel around the Elephant Bar in 1949. Jim came across this letter this morning that is dated Feb. 14, 1949...sounds like the weather was quite different on that day than ours was this year!
February 14, 1949. Palm Desert, California. A typed letter signed " Aldous" to Bobby: " We keep on expecting to go to Wrightwood; but the snow keeps on falling and the wind keeps on blowing and the frost keeps on freezing and the doctor keeps on saying that the least arctic place in Southern California is this one "Äi so here we still are, and probably shall remain for quite a while to come. Meanwhile your horse is up there in the snow, and we have not had a chance of seeing him again. So I can only thank you for the memory of a beautiful creature glimpsed in your studio. I liked him then, and I know I will go on liking him when I see him again. I hope all goes well with all of you and that Sebastian continues to increase in wisdom and avoirdupois. As for us, we vegetate in this desert, enjoying the beauty of sand dunes and the first flowers, of date palms and canyons and mountains covered with snow. In the intervals I have been writing some essays and making a dramatization of Ape and Essence. Perhaps somebody some time will put it on. Who knows? Our love to you both. Please remember us to your mother and father and give Cynthia all the messages that are appropriate to the coming occasion."
