"I am proud to know you. Proud to be seen with you. Proud and happy while watching you swim, ride, and play tennis; and in each of our activities together: the baseball games, the Races, every day at Greenhorn Ranch, the Malls; Everything; Everywhere. I am admiring of, and deeply affected by, your manner, your kindness, and each new accomplishment. I respect your quiet loyalty to your friends and to each of your parents. You may have noticed that most of the previous sentences begin with “I”. Yet they could not begin with “I” if it weren’t for YOU. You are the dearest daughter a man could have. You have never caused me a moment’s anguish or disappointment. Your qualities are of the best, and if you persist in those qualities throughout life, you will enjoy ever-growing happiness and, by so doing, understand the happiness you bring to others who know you. Especially to me, your father, who loves you." Cary Grant to his daughter, Jennifer, 26th February 1977
On this day in 1977, Cary Grant wrote to his daughter as she turned eleven.
(From 'Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best', by Nancy Nelson. With a foreword by Barbara and Jennifer Grant.)
