26th March 1937

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