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Voss – Eide, Engel and I would have gladly taken

a ride and met up with You; – I would have then

been informed of the stipend and thought

about the possibility of accompanying Höst

to America – there is hardly anywhere

else to travel to nowadays. –

Thank you for the congratulations – I might actually

thank You for the stipend as well; – for

without Your telegram I would not have applied for it –

incidentally I didn’t know, that I had applied for this

stipend; because Your telegram arrived here very

garbled: – it read "the Malien endowment" –

and I applied for "the Malien" endowment – and thought

least of all about the Mohr endowment, – which I

had barely heard of; just prior to that

I was congratulated with the "government" stipend – and this was repeated

3-4 times this summer (even from Prytz).

Well let us see whether it is possible to arrange

to paint Höst’s portrait around Christmastime,

as You mention, might ^{a little} studio be found in Kristiania [Oslo],

do You think? With warmest wishes from

Engel and me Your devoted

Good luck on your American tour!

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