La Rochelle, France 10/20/1935 (?)
Dear friends, now the sheet is finished, so now I start with thanks for the typewritten letter and money. We are equally satisfied with the letter whether it’s written the one or the other way, so it’s up to you, Marie, to decide which way the next one will be written. It would have caused a bad story if you got a headache every time we get a letter. Now the message is needed that it must be Peter’s fault that we can’t pick up Kalundborg because of the antenna we have – a fancy one from the big mast to the little mast. Our director was not cheap. Poor you who have to go and wait in fright and shaking the next 3 month because I eventually may get a fine for stamping or not stamping when I myself have almost got a tough skin and can withstand a push and punishment in business deals. Still if you find a really good buyer for the piano or if Lars gets away without paying Wechsel he has decided that he will pay for the travelling money for you to the 40th degree so you can see for yourself, dear, how sweet things are here. If you still haven’t heard from “Politikle” would you some day when it is convenient go to the editor and ask about the pictures. That would pay for you also because the one was a big and beautiful picture of us and the other we would hate to do without. Newspaper men are some mean ones, ‘Berlinsea” still have not payed what they owe. We have written to them 3 times. In regards to the “Viking” I am very sorry that if you are giving out a small fortune to buy it we still have not at all sent them anything since all the complications with the “Berliner” came between, we would rather wait and see what happened. Yesterday we had a visit from a newspaper man here from Bordeaux. he came with dates for the kids and Georginen flowers for the Mrs on Ile d’ jiu I got roses and every time Peter and I had strange long faces. Flowers on bard means namely bad wind so when we are ready to sail they go quickly overboard Otherwise that was a good performance with the newspaper man. He came with a friend and wanted to photographs us. We were all four placed on the cabin roof and then he and his friend went out in the dingy so they could get the sun at the right angle but none of them had ever been in such a boat and they didn’t t know how to row either, I think we are looking unusually happy and laughing on that picture, but strange enough they came away dry from that story. Here we have had the occasion to strengthen our love to the British people, we were laying behind a big English steamer here and the next day the captain came to look for us. ”Do you know Knud Anderson, he asked. Yes, said we, and then the talking started at full swing. He was very enthusiastic at our countryman. He had met him in a harbor and the enthusiasm he transferred to us and the enthusiasm resulted in a doll for Hallo, a gun for Lars, candy for me and sea charts for peter and light house lists from the whole world That we didn’t get a package with grapefruit and biscuits that he ordered was the ship chandler’s fault. He brought it on bord the steamer just before leaving instead on board by us. He was from Scotland, so our thought about Scottish people had been quite disturbed if not another person from Scotland, the first mate, brought them clear again. He also thought he should give something and took a button of his uniform and fastened it to Lars’s chest and the bottom was probably the shipping company’s property. Many loving greetings for you from your adoring Hallo, Lars, Peter, and Else.
Just pay Amateur Elubben – s’il vous plait! (please!!)