The weather is clear and there is little danger of storms during the next two months. You will prepare for your students the following reproductions: Van Gogh 15 by 103, red; Poussin 20 by 90, blue and yellow; Vermeer 11 by 33, red and blue.
Our hopes will follow your new efforts.
EISENSTEIN
* * *EISENSTEIN GALLERIES
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.
JANUARY 29, 1934
DEAR MARTIN :
Your last letter was delivered by mistake at 457 Geary St., Room 4. Aunt Rheba says tell Martin he must write more briefly and clearly so his friends can understand all that he says. I am sure everyone will be in readiness for your family reunion on the 15th. You will be tired after these festivities and may want to take your family with you on your trip to Zurich.
Before leaving however, procure the following reproductions for branches of German Young Painters’ League, looking forward to the joint exhibit in May or earlier: Picasso 17 by 81, red; Van Gogh 5 by42, white; Reubens 15 by 204, blue and yellow.
Our prayers are with you.
EISENSTEIN
* * *SCHLOSS RANTZENBURGMUNICH, GERMANY
Mr. Max Eisenstein Eisenstein Galleries San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
MAX, MY OLD FRIEND :
My God, Max, do you know what you do? I shall have to try to smuggle this letter out with an American I have met here. I write in appeal from a despair you cannot imagine. This crazy cable! These letters you have sent. I am called in to account for them. The letters are not delivered, but they bring me in and show me letters from you and demand I give them the code. A code? And how can you, a friend of long years, do this to me?
Do you realize, have you any idea that you destroy me? Already the results of your madness are terrible. I am bluntly told I must resign my office. Heinrich is no longer in the boys’ corps. They tell him it will not be good for his health. God in heaven, Max, do you see what that means? And Elsa, to whom I dare not tell anything, comes in bewildered that the officials refuse her invitations and Baron von Freische does not speak to her upon the street.