14th November 1936

14th November 1936

Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square, Bath

Dear Madeleine!

I think I did not yet thank you for your letter, so thank you very much now! Do you learn German, and do you like it? How did you find the book of Prince Adalbert of Bavaria. I don’t know it myself, but Mami knows it and said it is really the story of his mother, our grand aunt Pass. Who is a Spaniard and who made little notes which he arranged into a book. Because his mother can’t speak or write good German.

Loll said your friend was staying with you, so I hope you had a nice time. I have to learn just as you have to with a governess. I will be glad when I will have finished with school. I have every day lessons and homework from eight to 11 in the morning and from half past 5 to 7 in the afternoon.

After dinner we have to go out and I rather like it. The country is very nice and one has such a lovely view to the mountains, when it is nice weather. Just in front is the “Starnberger See” and then as if arising from it the Alps, and in the middle the Zugspitze the highest German mountain. Coming from the “Starnb. See” the Wurm (a small river) builds a lake at the bottom of the park of the castle. There we have two ships and in which we are sometimes rowing to Starnberg. It takes a little longer than an hour but is very tiring as there are swifts to pass. But I think it wont interest you very much so please excuse me.

Loll and Muck were staying a week at a cousin who was in England till now, and amused themselves very much. They saw a lot of people and enjoyed it a lot. They came yesterday evening for

an ice-polo in Munich. There were also the famous Austrian Stenuf, one of the best skaters and the Austrian Pausin, who were the second in the Olympics in pairs skating.

It was very interesting and nice to see. The two children were so awfully nice. Tomorrow we will probably go to “Rienzi” of Wagner in the opera. There will be the singer who sang Tristran at London. He was at Munich first and then at Dresden in The Free Archer of Weber. What have you seen of new films? It’s a pity we never go to the cinema here. We are not living in that castle which is on the picture, but I was born there. Now our Uncle lives in it.

Hoffentlich sehen wir uns bald wieder!*

*I hope we'll soon be seeing each other again.

Yours truly

Baby

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