7th November 1936

7th November 1936

Schloss Moos, Station Langenisarhofen, Niederbayen to 27 Queen Square, Bath

Dear Madeleine!

Why don’t you write for such a long time? I am starving for a letter from you. Did I write something very rude in my last letter and you are cross on me, or what is the matter? How are you? Please write to me more often. We are O.K. I spent a very nice time in Lindau at the lake of Constance. I was there on a visit to my aunt, and some cousins of mine. It was very nice indeed to live on the side of such a great lake. There are swans swimming on it. We went out on a ship, but not sailing, only rowing. When you come for a journey to Germany try and see Lindau. It’s a lovely old town built on a island in the middle of the lake. Now I am staying here at Moos with Muck for a week. There is another sister of my father who has a girl a little younger than myself. We have a great time. My cousin Therese stayed in England this summer for six months. She liked it immensely, and tells us now how fine it was there. Oh! I should like to go there too, but I don’t think I ever will. I do not see any cinema, though we went very often to the opera. We saw Troubadour (Verdi), Boheme (Puccini), Lohengrin (Wagner), Barber of Sevilla (Rossini), Postillon de Lonjumeau (Adam), Der fliegende Holländer (Wagner), Cosi Fan Tutte (Mozart). I enjoyed them very much. You know, it is very easy for us to go because Munich is so near. We are only waiting for snow to come, then we shall go on ski. I can’t go yet, but I will learn it. It will be great fun. Please write to my Leutstetten address, as I shall be back there soon. Give my best regards to your family.

Yours affectionately

Loll

P.S. I am reading heaps of English books. But I don’t think my English did improve. The stories are very nice and interesting. Did you ever read Marion Crawford? She wrote the “White Sisters” (it was a film too, very touching) or “The Undesirable Governess”, it was so funny, one burst with laughter. Perhaps you don’t like it, it is a bit old fashioned.

Love from Lol

Dear Madeleine!

Here is a sequel to my letter. The first I wrote after getting up in the morning and when I went down to breakfast, I found your letter. So thank you ever so much for it, and please forget my sighing after a letter of yours. No, we have no Xmas puddings, though heard of them a lot. I think it a very nice custom. As I have to do nothing, not even learning, I enjoy myself rather easily. That’s why I go on visits every now and then. I can’t sit at home knitting, reading or listening in the whole day long. It would be too dull. I thought of learning to cook, bit I am not clever at all. I began sewing a pinafore. It is the first thing I ever sew in my life except doll’s dresses. I did not know how to sew on a machine. But now I am learning it. I feel very clever and proud, though I did not yet finish it. I am very slow, and often not at home, you see.

Good-bye, Auf Wiedersehen, (when, I wonder? perhaps next year, if you come to Germany, it would be awfully nice.)

Loll