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Martinique Sept 28 1937Now we stay here till the middle of October then the hurricane time has passed and then we sail to Guadeloupe, St. Martin, St. Thomas where we would take to stay and celebrate X-mas perhaps then the last time it’s been more hot than it’s comfortable and […]

Martinique September 1937Full of money. It’s not so strange that we would rather stay here in the hurricane time than with the stiff British people in Trinidad. It’s also too late now to sail away and the children had a cold, they had to get over that. Maybe the gossip […]

Martinique, 8/27/1937Now your other letter, has also arrived from Grenada by the way of Copenhagen, Paris, Bordeaux, directly to Martinique and thank you very much for it. I felt it in the big toe that there was one on the way and therefore I waited with finishing this letter. A […]

Martinique, 8/16/1937 The contact is reestablished and that you are not tired of it and want to give up on us makes me feel happy. We are happy that we decided to stay here. It is beautiful and the business is good. At this time Peter is on the way […]

Martinique, 7/17/1937 Dear Marie and Valdemar, I think it is 4 months since we have gotten a letter from you, but it is our own fault, one day a bigger shipment will reach up from Trinidad, because we have chanced our minds and don’t ‘sail to Trinidad but stay here […]

Barbados 5/27/1937Dear Marie and Valdemar!Here all of us come and join Lars’ telegram birthday greetings which I hope you received in time. We Others come a little late with our Greetings but is not our error. Why is there no floating Post offices in the middle of the ocean? If […]

Dakar 4/16/1937As you see we almost have a permanent stay in Dakar and now Restmore is tied up as good as possible since we now are in the Marines Dry Dock and the bottom is being painted. We are together with Belgian steamer that has rudder damage and will probably […]

Dakar 4/3/1937 Here we come again to chat with you. Quickly coffee water on and Peter runs down for a couple of cakes. Yesterday we heard in the radio, Berlin talked wireless over the telephone with New York and in Germany they sent Television, so maybe we can in about […]

Dakar, 3/19/1937Now we have received all the money and also the radio etc., we have also got Marie’s long letter which we were very happy for besides of the regular mail a complete surprise and also such a long one where I also noticed that it is not quite right […]

Dakar, Feb. 20 1937When we get away from here sometime, we go to Isla de Cap Verde, post Restande, Porto Praya, but it could probably take 14 days before we have gotten over this. Now we have gotten more invitations, a car trip to a little Negro village and for […]