11th October 1937

11th October 1937

Sarvar to 27 Queen Square, Bath

Dear Madeleine!

Thank you awfully for your letter. I got it the very next morning after having written to you. I was delighted to have the foto’s. They are very good. I am sure Deidi would like the one of the group, but I can’t give you her address just now as I don’t know it myself. She wanted to be at Lourdes tomorrow and then spend a short time in Paris. And I am very glad to have her here by the 29th. She will stay here for the big shooting so I think it best for you to write to her while she is here. I am sending you a foto of Deidi’s wedding. I hope you like it and you don’t mind my writing all the bridesmaids names on the back of it.

We have quite a pleasant time here. At first we had many guests but now we have only four. One is an Irish girl called Mary D’Arcy. She plays tennis with us every day. I do a lot of knitting and reading. I adore knitting as much as some people do smoke cigarettes.

Muck tries the tap dance too. I am too clumsy for it and too lazy too. I had great fun hanging up the pictures in our rooms. Now everything looks very nice indeed.

My riding does improve, although I am not very clever. I’d love to go hunting but I believe I would fall down immediately. I try to persuade Pappi to let me go next year. Yesterday I saw a German film called Port Arthur and on Thursday I want to see Anthony Adverse. We are reading all the Pimpernel books Deidi has, before she takes them to Mandelieu.

I wrote this whole letter without a dictionary. I hate writing with dictionarys. I never do. It is rather cold here, and the trees have got yellow leaves. I am glad the rain stopped now. It rained so much last week. Now the sun shines again.

Give my love to all of you.

Loll

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