Batabano, Cuba 3/15/1939
Dear Marie and Valdemar!
Yesterday Peter was in Havana and brought your letter of 12. February home and we thank you strongly. There were certain expressions so it seems like it was you, Valdemar, who had emptied the bottle of schnapps before you sat down at the writing desk. We got no schnapps from “S.S. Pilsutzky”, even the black bread we wrote about and the salami we had to look in the telescope, maybe the customs man was against it. We are sorry to hear about Marie’s legs. I wonder how the pills worked. Otherwise the sun and the warmth are probably something that should work. It was fun to hear about your garden, park of course, with all the little shoots coming up, you have to please give the shoots something against frost. So also, we thank you for the newspaper picture. Now Per Alton must be known by every child in Denmark and he will be received in a manner which is proper to greet a yankee. Otherwise he will be very insulted and will complain to Roosevelt and when Roosevelt will dare to wire a complaint to Hitler then he can in the same time complain to Stanning (Danish Prime Minister.) You get to meet Per Alton in the spring. Here there are a couple of thousand German Jews who all have a return ticket to Germany which they probably don’t have a great desire to use and they wouldn’t get any credit from the Nordd. Lloyd (Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) (North German Lloyd) was a German shipping company ) so I can get what I need quite cheaply maybe quite for nothing if the company will permit me to use them and Germany doesn’t consider it Racial shame that I use the half of them when a Jew had used the other half. Peter will get a message on Thursday if it works out. I and the youngsters will arrive in Hamburg in May or June; therefore, you can save the birthday cocoa for the big family Dohm. If it works out and if you by chance should know someone who has a cheap small apartment for rent then please rent it for me and my 3 loudspeakers, of course have the softest comfortable sweet sounding voices which children can have and furthermore never use these voices unless they are far away from their dear companions. Everything is the same here in other words everybody is healthy. Hope you got my letter from the beginning of March when I was asking you to send 100 $ for Mrs. OW Harss in Havana. Mrs. Harss has paid us the 100 $ in advance and if you haven’t sent them yet, send them directly to Mr. Harss preferably not in cash.
Now it’s bedtime. So our loving greetings from Lars, Muse, Per, Peter and Else.
address is: General Consul Carlos Hintze, Western Union Building, Havana, Cuba