All the Letters home

Dakar 2/10/1937Dear friends, Yes, you must excuse the late answer – but it’s a difficult existence to be “Circumnavigator” in the harbor, it goes like crazy with visitors on land, dinners with Aperitifs and strong drinks so when you finally have a peaceful hour the head is not in such […]

Gran Canaria, January 2 1937Today we have received your X-mas letter and thank you heartily. I sit down right away to answer so you can know that we received the letter. Inspite of the valuable contents both the printed and handwritten with the printed I think that 59 francs and […]

Las Palmas, 1/20/1937Yesterday we got your letter from Jan. 5 and thank you very much. In case you still haven’t got our last letter with thanks for the 50 that happily arrived in our Arabian portmonnai we say thanks once more. Tomorrow if the weather is good we start off. […]

Las Palmas 12/12/1936and now we are finally sitting in Las Palmas on the Gran Canaries in 17 degrees, bananas are 7 stalks for 20 ore. We arrived last night at 4 o’clock after a sailing trip that was a lot longer than we had planned. Luckily this is quiet and […]

Casablanca 10/19/1936 “Der Mensch denkt aber Gott lenkt.” (People predict but God reigns.) And our next pet didn’t turn out to be a little Canary but ugly rat who ate our nice salami, but we tricked it with some delicious cheese in a trap and now we are again the […]

Gibraltar 7/30/1936 Today I got the very badly needed 10 L sterling by the telegram but the 300 pesetas for which I wrote to George in a long letter of 14 pages 1 haven’t seen yet and I’m a little bit nervous of when he sent it if they have […]

Gibraltar 7/27/1936To the editor of the Daily News, Sunday News Copenhagen As you may remember you promised my wife at her visit at your office. in April 35 to accept articles from us when we have had interesting experiences so I will permit myself to include The story about our […]

Cartagena, Spain 6/24/1936 Well, now I am able to write. That is a very strange thing. We read in the travel brochure that the average temperature here is 35°c and then I go and get a sore throat, well, the 35°c we have not had either, 20°c or 25°c is […]

Valencia, 5/14/1936Many thanks for your long letter and the money, which we got a daytoo late to buy the Rum for the birthday child but we didn’t hesitate to charter a steamer where we could celebrate the day and there was whisky on board. About the disappearance number I must […]

Valencia 4/25/1936 39°27′ N. 0018′ West position taken from the sea chart Peter’s differs a little. Many thanks for the poppy dog for my birthday, I was not the least bit afraid of it. Now I have to go to bed, therefore good night and loving greetings from Lars (not […]