Marconi My Beloved. Maria C. Marconi
be the most sacred thing in my life, a sign that I have really been undeservedly blessed by God. You are my ideal, the Angel of my redemption--and among all the beautiful and good things you possess you also have a Mother who is another Angel.
I adore you,
Your Guglielmo
London, 13th March 1927, 6 a.m.
...I have had to get up before sunrise since I have to go straight away to the country to visit one of my Radio Stations for the last day of the tests with Australia...
...But you are my greatest and most beautiful discovery...
Savoy Hotel, London, 15th March, 1927
My sweet Crissy,
It is very late again tonight but the only real joy in the whole day for me is finally to be able to write to you, if only briefly, to tell you again that the only thing that is really important for me, beside which everything else pales, is our Love and our hopes.
However, I want to tell you without delay that all went well for me today at the General Meeting of the Marconi Company which approved all my proposals with a huge majority.
Tomorrow I hope to write you a longer letter and I won’t fail to sent you some newspaper cuttings which describe how things went. All the tests with Australia have also gone well with the complete approval of the British and Australian Governments. Now I have to wish you goodnight, my Angel; take care of yourself, for my sake too. In spite of the thousand and one things I have had to do today (I didn’t even have the time to have lunch!) my thoughts have always been with you--because I love you and adore you with every fibre of my being, now and for ever for as long as I live.
Your own Guglielmo
Savoy Hotel London, 17th March 1927--Midnight
...This evening I am doing the final tests on your little apparatus and to tell you the truth this interests me more than all the others because the new Radio will soon be yours, and then it will always be with you (one day with us!). Tomorrow I have to do some interesting tests on the transmission of pictures to Australia. One day I will show you how it is done and how quickly!
Perhaps these pictures which travel to the antipodes with the speed of thought will go via Rome in their journey--perhaps across your room without you knowing anything about it for now? When the day comes that we can go on beautiful voyages together in our dear Elettra it will be easier for me to explain to my clever and beloved pupil how these things are done!...
...I know how much you love and appreciate the beauties of nature, the expression of the Divine Will in which the eternal ideal values, Truth, Beauty and Goodness are found (you have all three in yourself). The united Harmony of causes and laws forms the Truth; the united Harmony of lines, colours, sounds and ideas forms the Beautiful; while the Harmony of feelings and will forms the Good. As the highest expression of the Supreme Eternal Creator they connect in the human Being and carry him towards the final perfection...
London, 19th March 1927
My Crissy,
I have just received your dear, sweet letter No. 31. Thank you again for all the sweet things you say which always move me and make me happier than I ever dreamed possible. And tomorrow I am on my way to you.
I have thought of you so much in these last days of work and worry, loving you and, although we are far apart, feeling close to you in your prayers which I am certain will not fail to be heard and answered because of your goodness and fervour.
This letter will reach you after I have arrived in Rome, if all goes well with my journey. It will get to you after I have looked into your eyes, after I have told you again that I love you, perhaps while I am saying it to you. You will never get tired of hearing me saying it, will you?
My love for you is great enough to fill the universe, even more than electric waves can do and I wish you could receive it from every corner of the earth!
I can tell that it makes you happy to be loved as I love you with all the strength of my heart and my mind and I need to be loved as you love me with your heart of gold and your angelic sweetness.
Our love, which I feel has already been blessed by God, helps us both to comprehend the Divine goodness and beauty, it wakes us and spurs us on, it does us good and promises better.
Your Wizard
Ritz Hotel, Paris, 1st April, 1927.
My Crissy,
Today is your birthday and I thank God for the Divine Grace which brought you into the World and into my World so that April’s sweet and happy dawn is still more beautiful for me now and forever.
You came robed in flowers as Nature awoke to hail the Sun which God sent to give light, life and hope to all His creation.
This morning I was so happy to receive your dear, sweet letter No. 1. How many nice, dear and wonderful things you manage to say to me in just a few lines!
Just think when you are alone that my spirit is always with you; that there is a being who is completely yours, who feels with you, who exists just for you and who only wants to go on living to love and adore you and make you happy for ever. Here in Paris I feel lost.
I think about you all the time and everything I see seems temporary and fleeting as if they will only be able to exist and become reality again when you are with me. I can no longer have any joys or interests unless you are there to share them with me. Without you they mean nothing to me any more.
Don’t think that I am ungrateful for the Divine goodness and benevolence to which I owe so much, to which I owe everything. But God has given me this Eternal and Almighty Love and I feel He has done it for my good and I dare to think for yours. Perhaps more than anything he wanted me to find in you my Angel of redemption and salvation.
I have been out a bit today too but it was very cold. Tomorrow I leave for London.
At dinner today I met some old Spanish friends again: The Duke and Duchess of Peneranda and the Marquis and Marchioness of Viana. They gave me their best wishes and said they hoped to be able to give me their felicitations soon! The Duchess of Peneranda, who owns the most beautiful pearls in Europe, was wearing a string of them, all as big as cherries!!
But to get back to you, my blessed Angel, you who are worth more than all the pearls in the world, I want you to know that I miss you so much and that I need you to make me complete, to live, to become what I really feel I could be.
But just thinking of you gives me a feeling of tender sweetness, a light in the darkness, a joie de vivre that uplifts me and keeps me from what would otherwise be a profound sadness.
I love and adore you, praying and thanking God over and over again for your Love.
Your Wizard
London, Sunday 10th April 1927
My Cristina,
This morning in Westminster Cathedral I heard the Blessing of the Palms by Cardinal Bourne.
I longed for my “dear sweet Guide”.
Holy Week has begun, consecrated to the Passion and Resurrection of our Lord. I think a great deal about the Cross, the symbol and sign of our Faith because everywhere the Cross brings to mind the agony of Jesus for the sins of the whole world.
Together with the birth and life of the Redeemer, the Holy Cross always makes me think of the Supreme Sacrifice by which God was made man to offer us Salvation, teaching us that there can be no forgiveness without sacrifice.
I want you to know my thoughts about these things too because I feel I have to tell you everything.
Tonight I shall pray and