Author: hansdohm

Vero Beach, FloridaToday and yesterday Lars was on a little visit in Oslo Fla, (near Vero Beach) unfortunately I don’t think there is a post office there otherwise we would have mailed the letter from there. It seems like Lars had a grand time. He went to the movies yesterday, […]

Miami Fla May 1938We are also very impressed and we feel like a farmer who comes to the city but it’s wonderful here. The millionaires are running around in the streets in skirts, short sleeves and look so casual, you can easily mistake Peter for one of them, I hope […]

Miami, May 1 1938Dear friends,Now get yourselves seated comfortably in a good chair; it is going to be a letter full of news with surprises that may be could cause Valdemar to fall over backwards if you sit carelessly at the edge of the table and swing with the legs […]

Puerto Rico, April 2 1938I haven’t mailed this because I thought Lars good friends would not forget him and yesterday a letter came so he and we weren’t cheated. Thank you. I had actually thought that we, you and us should have the percentages of the packages Mr. Schmutz gets […]

Puerto Rico, March 27 1938Dear Marie and Valdemar,Cheers to you old guys. Here we are the world firm “Restmore”. Isn’t that smart? We have found a good friend here in San Juan, a photographer, who has that burning wish to get a greeting from us now and again, and so […]

St. Thomas, February 9 1938Dear Fellows!First, we heartily thank you for your letter from January 19 which we got today and we have discovered that you’re so just like that throw our pictures in the furnace. Unfortunately, we have no extra prints like that of us in the dinghy tonight […]

St. Croix, January 2 1938Dear Marie and Valdemar,happy new year and thanks for your old one. We are unpredictable and especially very touchy, therefore we now sit on St. Croix or more directly said fly from the one place to the other and drink and eat and stuff ourselves. Here […]

Guadeloupe, 12/7/1937Dear friends,We say again merry Christmas in summer warm sunshine. You have to make an effort to realize that it’s time to write X-mas mail. We run around in bathing suits and we even sweat at that. X-mas displays, X-mas’ trees and all such things making X-mas atmosphere you […]

Guadeloupe, 11/14/1937And now it is again very busy. Peter got presented to the president of the yacht club yesterday morning. In the afternoon, “Restmore” was towed to the yacht club where we enjoy conveniences, shower, toilet and extension cord from the clubs electrical outfited with a bulb in the cockpit. […]

Guadeloupe, 11/12/1937Dear Marie and Valdemar,Now I believe I have waited too long to write again but as usual I wrote that we wanted to leave Martinique in the middle of October but it was of course also November before we got off and to avoid repeating the mix up with […]