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14th May 1937 14th May 1937 1/0 14th May 1937 Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Thank you very much for the Coronation programme, it was so kind of you to send it. I heard a great part of the ceremony on the radio I only missed the Coronation of the Queen. I read every word and so I will always know what was going on as we could not hear distinctly. A former governess of ours who is staying in London sent us a lot of newspapers with pictures of the Coronation. It must have beautiful and splendid indeed. We all hope very much to see it all in the cinema. Please excuse what I have not written before but I have very much to learn now. I have a new governess and we won’t finish until July as she had not to come to Sarvar (Hungary) then. I am learning much more than the others did, I find as my governess gives very god lessons and knows a lot. I am really learning with her a lot. I have not much homework to do but after the lessons I am awfully tied and very lazy and not able to do anymore. We did not see many operas or theatres this last time. The best theatre was “Madame Sans-Gene” which was very good and amusing. It is a French play in the time of the revolution and Napoleon. Last week we saw the tennis plays for the Davis Cup. It was very interesting. It was the play between Austria and Germany. We all wanted the Austrians should make more but they were not as well as the Germans. We liked the two Austrian players so much and only the German von Cramm and not the second. Deidi even knew of Graff v. Bawarowski from Vienna where she had danced with him. The weather is beautiful here and we are sailing a lot on the lake of Starnberg with Ludwig, who returned from Hungary last week. Have you seen some good films again? We saw Ramona some time ago. It is an American film in colours. It was very beautiful but rather sad and I had to cry. Where to are you going in the summer holidays? I think we will stay here and return to Sarvar in the end of the summer. I hope we’ll see you soon again. Yours truly Baby Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

6th May 1937 6th May 1937 1/0 6th May 1937 Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! You are a perfect sweet to have sent us the Coronation programme. We are all very excited about it, as everyone is, to be sure. It would be most beautiful to see it. Perhaps we shall at some cinema. But we are sure to listen in. We did so at the funeral of King George V. And at the wedding of Marina. Many thanks also for your nice long letter. Am I not hateful not to have written for so long? But I was very busy sewing. Maybe I shall become clever in sewing. Until now I am not. The most exciting was to sew a tennis dress for Baby with a cape and all sorts of complications. It is not finished yet, but it will be very nice. Next I shall make a white organdie frock, a perfect sweet. I am quite in love with it, although I did not even start it. I was at a wedding of a friend, and it was great fun. I danced a lot. In ten days I shall assist at another. I wish everybody to marry because weddings are such immense fun. But not to be married myself. I was at Lindau for a week with Muck and Deidi. I tried to go by car, did you ever? It is very exciting and rather difficult. We have cars of our own but Pappi would never let us go by our self. He is afraid we could crash. So at Lindau we went in the car of a cousin. The most difficult is going backwards. Here we can’t play tennis, in Sarvar we have a court. But this weekend we are going to see the German champions von Cramm and Henkel playing the Austrians Count Bawarovski and Metaxa. It is about the Davis Cup. It will be awfully exciting. I love to watch tennis, bit I don’t like to play it myself. I saw some very good films “San Francisco” with Clarke Gable and Jeanette Macdonald. And “Romana” a coloured film, very nice but sentimental. And “Janeschikc” or “Love, Liberty and Treason”, a Polish film, talking German, very exciting with beautiful pictures. About a Polish highway-man and having adventures as much as the Scarlet Pimpernel. But the end is sad, he is hanged. We did not make up our minds about the holidays. I wish we would go to Belgium again. But that depends on grandma. Why don’t you go for your holidays to the Plattensee in Hungary. It is a very big lake and very warm water, always sun and good weather. It is quite near to Sarvar. I wish we would go there again very soon. But maybe we remain here till August. In Sarvar we can ride and do everything. And we have an immense garden and heaps of flowers and fruits. Here we have a dozen of apple trees which are empty before the apples are ripe. Yesterday we saw the opera Golderdammering by Wagner. It lasted 5 1⁄2 hours that is much too long. I am dreadfully untidy. The sisters send much love to all of you. I am very fond of you. Loll Right: Gottfried von Cramm. A German amateur tennis champion who won the French Open twice. He was ranked number 2 in the world in both 1934 and 1936, and number 1 in the world in 1937. He died in a car crash, Egypt 1976. He did, however, survive his fellow players of that day; Henkel played his last tournament at Bad Pyrmont in the summer of 1942, he had already received his draft notice. In the Battle of Stalingrad, Henkel was shot into the upper leg. He died of this injury on 13th January 1943. Bawarovski joined the German Wehrmacht. On December 21st 1942, when the Luftwaffe evacuated his troops from Stalingrad he ceded his place on the last flight to a heavily injured soldier and decided to stay in the trenches with his subordinates. He was hit by the Soviets and died in agony without receiving any medical help. Metaxa was drafted into the German Wehrmacht and was killed in action by American artillery fire at the town of Arnoldsweiler near Düren on 12th December 1944. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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Mi.647 (16.04.1937) Mi.647 (16.04.1937) 1/2 Miniature sheet first issued on 16th April 1937. Available from 1st National Stamp Exposition ‘The German Postage Stamp’, Berlin. Mi.Block 8 (individual stamp Mi.647). As Block 7 (Mi.646) but IMPERFORATE. Postcard sent from Berlin to Schwarzenberg, featuring the upper right portion of Mi. Block 8 - Mi.647. Ref: 05.05.1937 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

11th April 1937 11th April 1937 1/0 11th April 1937 Leutstetten to 27 Queen Road, Bath Dear Madeleine! Thanks awfully for your good wishes at Easter. I had lots of letters to write, so please forgive for not answering sooner. Besides the sewing lessons which we have twice a week take a lot of time as we work at home too. I finished a black silk blouse and a very nice skirt. I am very proud of it, although I was not as clever as Muck or Deidi. But Deidi did some sewing before she started the lessons so she has a high advantage. Muck and Baby went to a horse race this afternoon. We all were there a fortnight ago. I like them, especially when they’re are steeple-chases. They are most exciting especially when the favourite horses makes a fall. We never bet. Many people do. I think on only losers. I love horses. In Sarvar we do ride, here we can’t as we have no horses here. There is a stud here (I don’t know if that is right I looked it up in a dictionary. I mean a stable where there are also colts) but it is let and the horses don’t belong to us. This last week we had lots of visits and then we made a tour by car all for one day. We went to sightseeing at cloisters and castles up to the Danube to Neuburg. These castles once upon a time belonged to our family. And then we looked at the cloister Scheyern which has been a castle a thousand years ago and of which we are said to descend. Baby was at Moos with a cousin Therese Preysing of us. Next week we are going there although my cousin is in a Sacre-Coeur institute learning there. We are invited to go to a wedding of an acquaintance. Mami, Muck, Baby and Ludwig and I are going, Deidi is not, she is not acquainted with them. So she is probably going to another cousin for a few days. You know we have about 30 first cousins. I hope the wedding will be nice. They say one is to dance a lot. I am very glad of it. I am so very fond of dancing. We already did sailing but not in yacht, only in a small boat. It is a very nice boat, originally made for rowing but we can put up a mast and a sail and it goes quite nicely. I am very sorry we could not do more skiing but there was so very few snow. Now we have most beautiful spring weather. All the flowers are out and the birds are singing, and the trees getting leaves. It’s just lovely. Now I must stop as I want to go out for a walk. Much love and kisses. Loll Thank you so much for your dear Easter card. Please excuse that we did not write at Easter, we had all colds at that time and could not go to Munich to buy cards. As Loll has written I was too busy to write longer and I was to silly today as you see. I hope you are all well. I am sewing and drawing a lot now. With my love. Deidi Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.646 (05.04.1937) Mi.646 (05.04.1937) 1/1 Miniature sheet first issued on 5th April 1937 to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s 48th birthday. Mi.Block 7 (perforated). Individual stamp Mi.646. ADD '20 VIERERBLOCKS' Ref: 17/83 next 3rd Reich stamp issue Block 7 (Mi.646). Ref: 03.03.1938 - 1/9. Poor example on cover. Posted from Stuttgart to London. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

26th March 1937 26th March 1937 1/0 26th March 1937 Schloss Moos to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Please excuse me for not writing to you such a long time but my letters are always so silly that I don’t like to write. I am staying with my cousin Therese Preysing for Easter. She is two years younger than I, but we understand ourselves very well. My cousin must go to an “institute” or college, how you say in England, after Easter. I would not like to go myself and I think she does not like it either. I had to cut this card as it does not get into the envelope otherwise. My cousin has five little lambs here and one has to give them milk with the bottle. It is very amusing to feed them like that. They are so nice and tame. Today I am not going out as I have a bad cough. It is very silly to have to stay at home I find. We are invited to a wedding in the neighbourhood, in the middle of April. There will be more than 150 persons present, I am so afraid of it, that I sometimes wish not to go to it. But I think it will be quite nice and amusing after the first few moments. Only I find it always so bad to have to go before so many old ladies and to speak with persons whom one scarcely knows by name. We are hoping that one may dance on the “Brautsoiree” as we call it (the evening before the wedding). Deidi wont go as she was at so many other weddings, and she doesn’t even know the family. Please give my love to Mary. I wish you a happy Easter. Yours sincerely Baby Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

20th March 1937 20th March 1937 1/1 Reply postcard sent from the Land Registry in Nassau an der Liahn to an address in Singhofen. Featuring official 3 Pf postage stamps (Mi.132). The card is folded at the centre with reply card attached. Ref: 20.03.1937 Reply card (as attached) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

16th March 1937 16th March 1937 1/0 16th March 1937 Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Thank you very much for your dear letter, it gave me a great deal of pleasure. I have not written to you for a long time, as my sister said that they are going to write. Loll was waiting for a letter from you since some time. We are all very well. I was for 10 days in Vienna for the wedding of my friend, it was very nice, a very great wedding and a lot of people. At the great soirée the day before there were 600 people, all in the nicest evening dresses with very nice jewellery. I amused myself very much, seeing all my friends of Vienna and many Hungarians too, there were also many of Mami’s friends, they were all very nice to me. It was only a pity that one did not dance at the soirée. At the wedding the Hungarian gentlemen were in their national gala dress and looked very nice. Somebody sent us a photo of the wedding that was in an English newspaper. After the wedding I stayed still some days and I was still at some very amusing parties where we danced a lot. I was very glad to see my friends and cousins there. Now we are beginning to sew in Munich, Muck, Loll and I. We are going there to a sewing school three times a week before noon. One learns drawing of patterns and everything. I have already made for me a nice pink woollen dress. I also have drawing and painting lessons and in my spare time I do a lot of practicing to print and draw. We had also some visits of girls we know now. Tomorrow and after tomorrow we are invited to tea where there will be many people. We have some nice opera’s now – Meistersingers and Tannhauser of Wagner and others. I saw in the theatre Richard II by Shakespeare. I like it very much. I always like plays from Shakespeare. Ludwig and my father are now in Sarvar in Hungary but they will be back at Easter. Some days we had snow here and tried to go on ski, we like it very much, especially as we went in the mountains twice to do it. Please excuse my bad writing, I am very sleepy already. I hope Mary’s well again. Much love Deidi. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page