is never ending but if you were with me everything would be different. The only work which still gives me pleasure when I am away from you is the work which brings me into contact with the beauties of nature. It always seems to me that nature is part of you, part of your soul and I feel that it is also part of mine...
London, 18th February, 1927
...The other evening when I was in my room I heard part of Lucia di Lammermoor from Rome...and listening to that beautiful voice full of harmony and feeling I felt sure that you were listening to it too. Now I read in your letter that you really were!! And so the Radio has joined our sweet sensations! It won’t be long now before the television will make it possible for me to see you too but before that is really possible I hope to be with you always, to look into your eyes as it always was and always will be when there is true love. This ancient and eternal method will always be the best, better even than our Radio!...
Savoy Hotel, London, 26th February 1927
...But at this point not even the sun would make me happy if I didn’t know, if I didn’t feel that beyond the seas and the mountains are you, my sun, loving me and waiting for me patiently and faithfully!
...I am sending you some newspaper cuttings about me and about the Radio. You will laugh! (How I wish I could see you!) When you read the ones that say that your Wizard is the greatest man in the world!...
...If it weren’t for this Faith, the edifice of my whole existence would collapse...
...I find it difficult not to write to you perhaps even twice a day, if only to say to you again and again that I love you...
Savoy Hotel, London, 28th February
...It is midnight...Here at this moment I feel like a caged lion who bites the bars wanting to attack anyone who makes you suffer. Yes, my darling Cristina, I am ready to do anything to defend you from those who dare to attack you; I long to leave everything here and rush to your side...
...I am touched by the sweet messages that your dear Mother has sent me through you. After your Love, I value her affection for me most of all. She has contributed so much to make you the person you are!
Savoy Hotel London, 6th March 1927
...I have been for a beautiful solitary walk. I so much prefer the country to the city! I thought of you and of how happy I shall be one day when I can always enjoy the beauties of nature with you--you who are also Her sublime creation...
...I love to look at the sky and as I look at it I think that you too often look up...
...The General Meeting of the Marconi Company is fixed for 15th March which means that I shall not be able to come to Rome until after that date. It is going to be rather a stormy meeting with the two rival factions of shareholders. It will also be embarrassing for me because both sides want me with them...
Savoy Hotel London, 8th March 1927
...You are the soul mate that I never expected to find and I repeat that I want you to be my sweet guide and help for the improvement and progress of my spirit which belongs to you completely...
...I shall have so many things to tell you and explain to you about my plans for voyages on the Elettra and my new inventions...
London, 9th March evening, 1927
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
London, 10th March, 1927
My Cristina,
Another day has gone by; every day that passes brings me closer and closer to the day when finally I shall see you again.
I won’t write much this evening because I am very sleepy after staying up so late last night. But there will never again be a day when I won’t see you or be with you or write to you if you will let me.
The tests with Australia which kept me up almost the whole of last night are going very well but I will write more about it another time.
I have to chair a difficult meeting of the Marconi Company on the 15th.
Crissy my darling, I’m happy!! And why shouldn’t I be! I love the most divinely beautiful, the sweetest, kindest, and most adorable girl in the whole world. We have the same tastes, the same deep and sincere religious feelings without which we could never be really happy; feelings which uplift and comfort us and bring us closer and closer together. And then, such a wonderful thing, I have the Divine gift--the Grace of your Love. Your Love for me is and