Ernest told Hadley she was the only woman in his life who never gave him trouble. “The more I see of all the members of your sex the more I admire you,” he wrote her on July 26. Ernest complained that Pauline was undermining his work by demanding large sums of money, and that she wouldn’t cooperate with his plans to visit their sons. Martha later infuriated him by her refusal to subordinate her career to his, and by her long absences during journalism assignments. “If one is perpetually doomed to marry people from St. Louis,” Ernest wrote Hadley on December 1, 1939, “it’s best to marry them
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