4th June 1938

4th June 1938

Sarvar to 27 Queen Square, Bath

Dear Madeleine!

Thank you so much for your letter. I am very glad you found your cat again. I wonder where he has been all the time. I hope you enjoyed your sherry-party. Baby is also practising her piano, but she is not very clever. I gave it up after four years. I could not play one tune. I enjoy much more listening in. However, our wireless set is rather old and we are not able to catch an English broadcast properly. I was at Verdi’s Requiem last year in Munich. The whole of the Milano’s Scala sang it with Gigli, Cigna and everyone, it was wonderful. I wish I could see and hear “Rigoletto” and “Traviata” once. I like the music of “Tosca” very much. I saw it twice already. In Munich we went to the opera very often. But Sarvar is such a little gossip town. We have nothing else than the cinema. The weather is beautiful here, all sun and heat. It is necessary for the hay to be brought in. Yesterday I eat the first strawberry. I like them very much. We are going to have heaps of them. Much of our fruits were frozen, we have scarcely any cherries. I go riding every morning, but already at 7 o’clock, it will be much too hot later in the day. I wish the water was warm enough to go swimming. Mammi is in Mandelieu with Deidi. I am expecting a letter of her every day. Have you fixed your plans for summer holidays? I think we are going back to Leutstetten later in August. I wish we were. Sarvar is rather dull, one never meets any friends. Baby is going with Papi out in the forest. They want to shoot some deer. Rasso

is playing with our 5 young Dachshounds. They are very sweet, all speckled black & brown. Muck is going to Scotland today, I don’t know her address there.

Fondest love, Baby sends her love too Loll