West Palm Beach, Fla 11/13/1938
Dear Marie and Valdemar!
Now we are here in the town with a nice sounding name and since the consul here had a letter waiting from you, I grasp again the pen even it isn’t my turn to write something but I am of course so nice. The letter contained quite extraordinary recommendation of my dear brother about staying on, Queen-Marie-Bremen” or “Normandy”. I must admit that got us laughing, but of course considering that Frederik is not so well known here in America maybe it could have been some use I don’t hope that he has had more trouble with getting a job for me than this recommendation must have given him. Now that we wouldn’t come home to freeze this winter. Furthermore, if he only sent some money, I can easily get some work myself with those three! Well, now we have to see how it will go with the trip home next year. Now it’s too cold on the northerly latitude for us tropical birds. I am searching my brain to remember if there was something to be answered in your letter. The baby ate it, he is about to get teeth and he thought that was good to chew on. Be-be!!! Do you remember, Valdemar, that you at one time compared Lars with Kay’s dog because they both tore up paper and put Lars on a puppy-level? Now he’s sitting very often cutting out of magazines and with the resulting pieces of paper scattered all over it is the same. Apparently, he has still not graduated from this state. Today the 2 big kids were in Sunday School and we had a peaceful morning. At lunchtime the entire family Moller came driving from Miami to bring us the 100 $ that was waiting there and in this way bring us out of an embarrassment since Peter yesterday in a terrible longing for sausage has bought so much sausage that he didn’t have enough money for butter so today we were eating sausage on bread without butter. In a couple of days, we will sail to Miami, so our address is still the mysterious Axel Moller, Miami, and now I finish with our loving greetings from yours Lars, Muse, baby, Peter and then me. Frederik still has not written to me.