16th March 1937

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.