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These love letters have been kept close to Anita’s heart and private due to the sensitive
nature of the content. In which Elvis express his feelings in several
handwritten love letters to the girl back home while expressing a deep love and his desire
to marry her upon his return. Finally, the two-year separation took it's toll on the
young couple and was here where their final parting was to be and a new name suddenly
entered the headlines Priscilla Beaulieu
From the start of his career Elvis life was constantly under close scrutiny by the press
whatever he did or said wherever he went and with whom… was reported. The press is
probably the main contributor to the list of girls and Hollywood leading ladies,
which Elvis has supposedly dated or has been linked with romantically.
We all know Elvis’ first official girlfriend was the lovely and vivacious blonde, Anita
Wood. Anita had a lot more in common with Elvis. She like Elvis had moved to Memphis as
a teenager from a rural area of Tennessee where she was born. Annie (as Elvis
sometimes liked to call her) first meeting was set up by a mutual friend as a blind
date. Elvis and Anita spent a lot of time together in Memphis before his career really
took off. They would usually spend their time at the cinema, the skating rink or
place they both loved, Libertyland. While dating Elvis, Anita got to know Gladys Presley
very well. The two got on famously, probably because of their similar background. Anita
would recall that Gladys half expected
Elvis to marry her because they were so
close and that she just
couldn’t wait to see their little children walking up the driveway. This
letter by Elvis proposing marriage to girlfriend Anita Wood sold at auction
for $14,100.00
My Dearest Darling "Little"
Well here I am. Back out in the field for 30 days again and believe me it's miserable. There
is only one consolation, and that is the fact that it's almost over, and I will come
home to my career, friends, and most of all you my darling. Anita there are many things
I can't tell you over the phone so I will try to tell you now. First of all I don't
really know how you feel about me now because after all 2 years is a long time in a
young girl's life. But I want you to know that in spite of our being apart I have developed
a love for you that cannot be equaled or surpassed by anyone. My every thought
is you my darling, every song I hear, every sunset reminds me of the happy and
wonderful times we've spent together. I tell you this because I want you to know my
feelings
toward you have not changed, but instead has grown stronger than I ever thought it could. I
have hurt you sometimes because I was mad at some of the things you did or I thought
you did, but everytime these things happened I thought that maybe you only liked
me for what I am, and didn't really love me for myself. These things happen in
life baby, misunderstandings, heartbreaks and lonliness, but the fact remains, if it's
really love Anita , if we really love each other it will last, and these things will be
something of the past, although things will come up in the future that will hurt us
both. They are to be expected. I have had feelings that in the last few months something
has happened as far as you're concerned, not only because you haven't written
but by the sound of your voice when I talk to you. The warmth and love seems to
have dimmed.
It may be my imagination but you seem as though you have something to tell me but yet you're
not sure. I hope I'm wrong. You know after going through what I have in the last
18 months you sometimes wonder if anyone really cares. Please believe me when I
tell you it's you and only you my darling. But I think that you will keep your word, and
tell me if you had grown to care for someone else and vice versa. I have been sleeping
out on the ground, and I have a fever and tonsillitis again. I am listening to
the radio and all the guys are sitting around with sad looks on their faces. Do you
remember when you used to bounce for me and I would laugh so hard? Darling I pray that
you haven't let your loneliness, passions, and desires make you do something that would
hurt me. If you have it is better you tell me now. I can't believe you
have or would. Well we are all counting the days until we come home. The reason I didn't
want you there on the first night because in spite of the fact that I love my friends and
relatives, when we first lay eyes on each other we will cling to each other like a
vine. So I think some other people might get their feelings hurt. So please understand
honey. You have surprised me at how understanding you are. So darling if you
still feel the same and if you love me and me alone we will have a great life together
even though you hear things and read things. Just think as you said, everyone
knows how I feel about you. I can't explain to you how I crave you and desire your lips
and your body under me darling. I can feel it now. The things we did and the the desire
we had for each other's body!!! Remember darling, true love holds its laurels through
the ages no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live-lives.
Yours alone, EP
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