says Engel, – she is pressuring me to erect

a 14-meter-high flagpole and purchase a flag for

Your visit, – and then You must stay here as

long, as You can hold out in our cabins – it is

very beautiful here with snow in the mountains

– later in the summer it is not as beautiful

down in the village, but then we can move to

the mountains – I am in the process of erecting

a building in "Botnen" – Inger knows the place and

might make the trip as well – that would please

us immensely – likewise if Your other

daughter V. would like to join you – (I don’t know

how the name is spelled and thus dare only write V.)

I am presently carving a large

– very large – woodcut, which will surely be a

total fiasco, – it is "Foxgloves" in a little

different version than the gallery’s. Well one

shouldn’t "count one’s chickens before they

are hatched". Engel asks me to say hello and wish

You a warm welcome! – as do I

Your devoted

Astrup

Sandalstrand 30/4 1918.

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